The hivemind is conquering for me? - Chapter 74

Chapter 74: Arrival
The man grew confused by his princesses command. “Could you repeat that my sweet? I think my hearing is finally going.”

Hailey not in the mood of being in her fathers presence longer than she needed to be repeated herself. “I want you to get me a job in the college of psionics on Ecumenopolis 7 after my rotation here is done.” Although hearing clearly this time, the man grew even more confused. “Are you sure sweetie when you graduated at 15 you told me you would never go back to ‘that hellhole of a school’ again. What has made you change your mind?” Hailey’s face grew colder to mask her true emotions before the man began stammering “D-D-D Don’t worry sweetie if that is what you want I can get you a job there today.” “No in 6 months after my shift here is finished. I will contact you tomorrow expecting all the paperwork complete.”

With her finishing her piece Hailey hung up leaving the man on the other both distraught and happy. distraught at the fact she would not even say goodbye and happy that he would talk to his princess again tomorrow.

With a slight cough he placed the emergency contact crystal back into his robes and addressed his council whom he made wait at his daughters call. “Sorry for the delay councilmen, but as those with daughters know…” He left the sentence hanging in expected understanding with the fellow parents of daughters. Feeling bad for the man one of the council members spoke up “We sure do your grace Dickon, now let us get back to the matter at hand.” With that King Dickon got back to his council tasks which went by at lightning speed with his excitement for tomorrow.

Meanwhile after Hailey ended communication, She finally let her façade crumble. Her cold steely face turning bright red as she rubbed the back of her hand where Apollo had kissed it. “He was so young and yet so strong!” She said excitedly. The reason Hailey felt the need to personally inspect the ship was due to the fact she felt a powerful psionic wave wash towards the base from the ship but it held no purpose as though it was a passive phenomenon.

Hailey had met Extremely powerful psionic wielders before so she had assumed the person on the ship would be some 800 year old Hermit power creeper who had spent centuries reaching that pinnacle. But when she arrived at the ship and only saw two young people who were not emanating any visual signs of extreme strength and a member of the crew she grew confused by their age but shrugged it off as possible cosmetic and psionic manipulation to keep themselves young and a possible psionic cloaking effort to not cause upset.

With this thought, she engaged in her query’s as formal as she possibly could but when the man who had given his name, Apollo, told them they were entering the college as students, realising the presence she felt was probably his, she did the best she could to keep her regal façade up, but it still cracked for a moment and she had to feign a task on her device.

When she turned back around, she began to look at this young man in a new light and her heart began to race. Before she could spiral however she decided to quell her feelings by asking a simple question of if he was of noble birth. As her mind could only fantasise if the powerful stranger in front of her was noble such as her status demanded.

Sitting there still in her chair holding her hand with her other, staring ever at the back as though his lips had been imprinted upon them, Hailey was not sure whether she would have preferred if he was not royalty as maybe her emotions would easily stay in check now, instead of making her want to throw up her heart as it felt so tight in her chest.

“What is wrong with me?” Hailey thought with self mockery. The entire reason she had fallen out with her father was the pressure of marriage and being forced to marry some random noble. But now, thinking about that man, that powerful man younger than her by 5 years who could protect her from all the evils that threaten the empire… It set her chest alight with her heart going ‘doki doki’ while butterflies filled and danced in her stomach.

Hailey was about to scream girly like for the first time in her life at the feelings she was harbouring before a knock was heard at her door. The red that flushed her face receded and her steely coldness returned.

Swearing to the entire galaxy that if interruption in her fantasy was not important, she would make the persons life who interrupted her a living hell “Enter!”

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Just shy of two days of space travel later and we arrived at our destination, Space! Inside this area of space was home to the 7 core worlds of the Spartari. Off into the distance, I could see a planet our true destination, Ecumenopolis 4. “Ronnie why are you flying the ship slower than a turtle?” I asked inquisitively. “Apologies Apollo, This is the maximum speed civilian ships are allowed to travel nearby planetary bodies in order to avoid accidental collisions the estimated travel time to the planet is two hours.”

While I said the ship was flying slowly that was just compared to regular space faring, It was still flying incredibly quick it just seemed slow. Deciding I wanted to spend the last two hours of my voyage not starting at the floating hunk of liveable rock looming closer, I decided to spend the two hours doing some psionic practice in my Mindspace.

For the past week or so I could feel my origin itching in my mind. It is on the cusp of granting me a new power I could feel it. It was just lacking a spark that could grant me a power like with many of my powers had done in the past.

Sitting inside of my Mindspace I tried to focus on forcing some sort of change but with Onyx terrorising Sapphire nearby with a game of eat the kitty, It was hard to concentrate, but at the same time was a good way to improve my concentration.

Deciding not to spend the rest of my time banging my head against the wall, I decided to turn my attention to one of my little side projects. Since my fight with onyx, I wanted to attempt to float the way I had for a second when I grew angry.

I had been trying every time I was free but the closest I had gotten was making my self somewhat like a balloon in the ships current gravity. If I jumped I could stay in the air for a little bit longer but that was not floating, but still useful in its own right.

Concentrating hard once more I focused my energy outside of my mind and onto my body coating it like a film. I felt my body get lighter and lighter and I had just managed to go further than the last time making parts of my legs that were anchoring me to the ground begin to rise.

As my anchoring was become less and less the burden on my mind became heavier and heavier and just before my posterior superior managed to lift of the ground, It felt as though I had been hit with a bag of bricks and my body once more anchored itself to the ground.

Not upset by my lack of progress rather using it to encourage myself further, I left my Mindspace shortly after giving Onyx and my chonk a kiss which involved tongue action in two very different ways.

Opening my eyes, I was now covered in sweat as the training was taxing. Going to take a shower Orchid sprang up and ran in first to take the opportunity to grope me free of complaint as she washed my body.

Orchid did not really like any of the soaps aboard to wash myself with, as the hive usually just eats my upper layer of skin to clean me and is used to my natural scent. But telling her that it was a part of human culture to stay clean and that she was not designed to eat my skin in an effective manner, Orchid had been choosing the least chemical smelling soaps and went for a mint wash.

Coming out of the shower minty fresh and with a couple of already healing love bites from Orchids extra eagerness to prove me wrong, I got changed into my new people clothes. I put on a pair of heavy duty black cargo pants a white t-shirt with a brand I don’t know about and a black leather jacket with purple accents running along it. The pants and the shirt were comfortable but the jacket felt right somehow. I Felt as though me and this jacket were like brothers in a strange sort of way and It would always be by my side.

As I stepped out of my room after posing a few times, I made my way to the cockpit and in good timing, as right before us was Ecumenopolis 4