CHAPTER 27 – TELENON ATTACKS HIS CLONE

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So grateful were they that the kangaroo hopping over to them went unnoticed. "Did you think you could defy me?" it said, looking not at Priya, but at the asylum seeker. Almost instantly the bow-tie on its neck transformed back into Telenon and punched the scientist across the ground, meters away. Camouflage discharged, and he took hold of his counterpart's head. "Ahh!" the creature screamed as power sought to escape its veins. Stubbornly the shadow plasma refused and he lost his grip as it repelled the hands. "Why can't I absorb you?" he groaned. "I'm not a part of you anymore, Telenon. I don't know my name yet, but I will find one" the seeker answered. "Allow me" Telenon replied, pushing him onto a rail that curved into a circle loop. Balling his hand into a fist the loop separated and collapsed in on itself, into a point that exploded with serene dynamism. With that annoyance out of the way he turned to Priya, dusting herself off from a misshapen pile of debris. "Been saving this for our little game of hide and seek" she smiled, releasing a cloud of crystal octopus ink. Its mist was sparking and tantric. "Hopscotch!" Telenon bayed, waving away the obfuscation of the prey had eluded him once again.