AZAZEL GRANGER POINT OF VIEW
In my mind I was beginning to form a solid idea of what was going on.
If everything that Officer Ruhby said about this nuclear war, powers that they call anomalies, my mother being a telepath, if everything she said is true....
...you can get an idea why my father broke a car with his bare hands, and why he saw me as a nuisance in his life.
As I get up to follow Officer Ruhby to her office I notice that she is startled by something.
I approach her, touch her shoulder and ask her what frightened her.
(Ruhby): "Well, for you, who don't know anything about Ostrea and the anomalies, I'll introduce you to someone you already know.
She points to the glass on the wall, seeming to want to highlight a man, who I recognize to be my grandfather.
(Ruhby): "Meet "White Fang" the Angel, your grandfather. When it comes to anomalies, each person can manifest their anomaly to a different degree, depending on how well they can process the radiation in their E.G.O.. The more radiation a person can process, the higher their ranking on the Du'teal scar. These rankings go from 10 to 1, 10 being the lowest and 1 being the highest, above ranking 1 there is the Special ranking, where a person can process more radiation than the devices can measure. But your grandfather is a special case among special cases. He is recognized by the government as a "Color". Measuring ability among members of the special class is impossible today, there are no devices that can differentiate how much radiation these members can process in their E.G.O.'s. Plus, in very special cases, the government gives a person a "ranking" above the special ranking. This ranking is known as the "Colors", because that is literally what it is. Above the special ranking are 7 people who have been given a "Color", to represent that they are something above what can be expected from something special. Your grandfather is something above that. He is known as the "Representation of White", the first Color. The Human with the most powerful Anomaly in history, and the strongest E.G.O., the white-clawed Angel, Verith Granger. When it comes to anomalies, there is no one greater than your grandfather." -Maybe the representation of the black one, that crazy guy who thinks he's the hero of every story is on the same level as Verith, but that's too much for me to explain to Azazel right now, and no one really knows who of the two is the stronger.-
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After we leave, I greet my grandfather who, when he notices my presence, gives a loud laugh, approaches me, and asks me:
(Verith): "Looks like that old pocket knife was useful after 300 years, wasn't it?"
Looking at the knife that was inside an evidence bag on the counter to our left, I answer: "Yes, it seems that you saved my life once again in flight. Only, this time, I'm not sure that staying alive was the right thing.
(Verith): "Your father was, is, and always will be a worm, a drag on my family, he only did two good things, you and your sister, both are great in different ways, but it seems that you are great in more than one way.
As I talk to my grandfather I notice the current situation in the department. The policemen, who before were frightened by my grandfather's presence, now seem intrigued by his personality, and some seem even more intrigued by the pocket knife my grandfather gave me. I am interested in why they were intrigued by this old thing, older than I imagined, but I have much more serious business to attend to now, so I say goodbye to my grandfather, after explaining the situation in more detail to him.
The sequence of events introduced me to one of the essences of this world. When Officer Ruhby was explaining to me how the E.G.O. worked, I was a little confused about what the Abnormalities were. She mentioned several times these two things: anomalies and Abnormalities. I had thought it was just two ways of referring to the same thing, but there I met my first Abnormality.
RUHBY REED'S POINT OF VIEW
Damn it!
I was distracted when the Angel mentioned that pocket knife, I couldn't believe that it actually existed.
I didn't even notice when one of the inmates in a cell started to deteriorate. This must have happened because his E.G.O. was collapsing, maybe because of drug abuse, and even more so the presence of the Angel here must have affected him.
Why did an Abnormality have to appear right away.
At least the Angel is here, if anything gets out of control, he should be able to handle the situation.