Telepaths (Hive England)

## Hive Culture

### Good Manners

"Good manners" is the term used among telepaths for the principles guiding their interactions amongst themselves. These principles are intended to minimize feuds between telepaths since any escalated conflict could harm the Hive. The general gist of "good manners" is that telepaths should allow each other privacy; one telepath should not read the mind of a person closely associated with another telepath, and should leave handling those people to said telepath. If a telepath does find out personal information about another telepath or their people, they should keep it to themselves. If a telepath wishes to involve their people in another telepath's case, or accidentally breaks the rules of "good manners", that telepath must contact the telepath on the other end and settle the matter.

### Communications

Officially, there is no communication system between telepaths. Unofficially, telepaths communicate via a back-channel system through the dedicated secure connection that the Telepath Tactical Units use to share information and have joint meetings. A telepath can use the security codes of their Strike team leader or Tactical Commander to create a conference call with another telepath without being tracked.

Conversations between telepaths always begin with the one word question "Alone?" The standard response is either 'yes' or the amount of time until the telepath can be alone and respond to the request. The telepaths ensure that nobody else is aware of this method, as they believe that the Hive would block this method if they knew of it.

## Past Telepaths

### Claire

* Came out of Lottery 2454, served as a telepath for 75 years
* Was a devoted Hiveist and believed in reincarnation
* Had 25 duty children, all of which were raised in her unit
* Had her first heart attack during an emergency run at age 81.
* Died at age 93 in 2529, 3 years before Amber was discovered in Lottery

### Olivia

* Came out of Lottery 2524
* Was lost to fragmentation from the echos of all of the minds that she had read.
* By *Defender,*  her unit was not assigned specific zones, but was located physically between Sapphire's and Mira's units. She no longer did emergency runs but still did simple check runs.
* At the end of *Defender*, she was reset to before she entered Lottery and came out of it as a borderline telepath.

### Nishant

* died around Halloween in 2523

### Blake

* Was difficult to work with.
* At one time he was offered on the System, but used his right to change hives back to Hive England to exit the trade system before it was complete.
* died in 2527 of a brain hemorrhage at age 48.

### York

* Came out of Lottery 2502, 30 years before Amber.
* Immediately after his first run he committed suicide.

### Unnamed Female Telepath

* Told Morton why telepaths cannot meet
* Died in 2512

## Current Telepaths

### Morton

* Morton's unit information
* Came out of Lottery 2492
* Assigned to Violet Zone and Purple Zone
* Has physical limitations because of his age and health
* His unit is known to be "austere and dedicated"

### Sapphire

* Sapphire's Unit information
* Came out of Lottery 2507
* Assigned to Green and Turquoise Zones
* Can reach three levels below pre-vocalization, a skill only currently surpassed by Amber
* Her unit is "notorious for its people both working and playing hard."

### Mira

* Mira's Unit information
* Came out of lottery of 2515
* Assigned to Blue and Navy Zones
* Finds emergency runs stressful
* Her unit is known as a "gentle place full of flowers"

### Keith

* Keith's Unit information
* Came out of lottery 2519
* Assigned to Burgundy and Red Zones
* Not a true Telepath with full control as his telepathy cuts out unexpectedly
* Can barely read below the pre-vocalization level
* His unit is "an unhappy place filled with conflict"

### Amber

* Amber's Unit information
* Came out of Lottery 2532
* Assigned to Orange and Yellow Zones
* Her unit is known as "the unit that fights dangers Outside" and the "Light Angel" unit

## See also

* Law Enforcement
* Telepathy

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) (p. 1). Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) (p. 320-321). Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Defender (Hive Mind Book 2) (p. 348). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Telepath (Hive Mind 1)* (2016). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Defender (Hive Mind 2)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Borderline (Hive Mind 4)* (2019). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition