Atticus

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He was born and grew up on level 80, Blue Zone.

### Teen Level

Atticus lived in the same corridor group as Amber during their teen years. He is Forge's best friend and attracted to Amber. He is quiet and intelligent, and unlike most other teens, is not afraid of Nosies since he feels he has nothing to hide.

He grew up on level 80 so wasn't as concerned as some of the other teens about what level he would end up at.

### Lottery 2532

Atticus is imprinted as a level 3, surgical specialist. He is also picked by Morton to be his lead surgeon so is imprinted with some information concerning Telepaths and their units. After Lottery he works with both Morton and Mira before once again meeting Amber who he knows is also a telepath.

## Summary

### Perilous

During Perilous he asks Amber to attend Carnival as his date and she agrees. Before the Carnival parties start they do a few events together and one of them is the Light and Dark pageant where Atticus is as afraid of the Dark as everyone else except Amber.

When the lights and power went out, Atticus had to fill in for Forge, since Forge was caught in the duct work during the emergency.

Atticus gets Amber to help him mostly because she isn't afraid of the dark and Atticus is terrified of it and having a hard time cooping.

Since there is only one year left until Lottery would separate them, Amber and Atticus mutually agree not to engage in any serious relationship that would likely lead to heartbreak.

### Telepath

Atticus doesn't actually appear in this book but Amber does find out what lottery assigned and imprinted him for.

### Hurricane

In the first book, *Telepath* one of Amber's strike force members, Eli was badly injured. It turns out that Atticus led the team of surgeons that operated on him so when Eli's issues with having a follow up operation became over whelming, Amber offered to talk to his surgeon to find out the answers that he wanted. When he agreed that it would help him, she had Megan contact his surgeons.

To Amber's surprise it was Atticus that came to talk to her about Eli.

Adika is suspicious of anyone that isn't assigned to a Telepath unit knowing the true facts about Telepaths so Atticus has to explain that he is own a *Gold Assignment.*

It eventually comes out that his Gold Assignment is that he is Morton's designated surgeon and he has already consulted with Mira.

He feels regretful now that he did not pursue his relationship with Amber when he had the chance on Teen level, but accepts that she has moved on and is happy with Lucas.

Atticus appears again late in the book when he arrives at the Sea Farm in the flying hospital. Even though it was suppose to be an uneventful trip for him, he ended up by operating on someone from another sea farm that had taken shelter during a major storm.

### Borderline

He operates on both Eli and Caleb, but doesn't interact with Amber.

### Adversary

After Atticus leads his team of surgeons in an emergency operation when Morton's childhood repairs failed without warning, the entire surgical team has to leave Morton's unit so that he can't read their minds. They were concerned that the images from the emergency surgery would frighten Morton beyond what he could endure. Atticus is devastated over the pressure and stress of the operation and decided that he couldn't inflict himself on his family even for a few days, he goes to Amber's Unit to beg a room until the festival ends. She invites him to stay as long as he needs and tells him that he can amuse himself with helping in the medical center or just relax in the park, which ever he needs to do. Megan has a maternal interest in helping Atticus and takes him away to get settled.

When a Frontline Medical team was needed and the designated leader was unable to fulfill that role, Atticus stepped up to lead the team that would come in after the strike team to do immediate triage.

After the emergency was over, Atticus realized just how much a telepath is really needed because of Amber reading minds, the anticipated disaster was diverted and the Frontline medical team wasn't needed. Even though he was still suffering from the trauma of Morton's medical emergency, when Morton messaged him to get back to his unit so he can prepare for the additional surgeries, Atticus did go back so he could put his considerable skills and knowledge to use by saving Morton's life.

## See also

* Amber's Teen Corridor Group
* Teen Level 50

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Perilous: Hive Mind A Prequel Novella (p. 15). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Perilous: Hive Mind A Prequel Novella (p. 98). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Telepath (Hive Mind Book 1) (p. 37). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition