Michaela

## Family Members

**Parents:** Unnamed

**Brothers:** Elliott, Declan**Sisters:** Paula, Francesca, Charlotte.

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### Family

The youngest of six duty children, she was spoiled by her older brothers and sisters. When she moved to teen level she had already known the surfing coach, Bruce for years as a family friend since all of her older brothers and sisters had been on the teen surfing team and had adored him, often inviting him to their level 1 apartments.

### Teen Years

A month before Michaela joined the surfing team, Bruce learned the truth about Nosies and telepaths by causing Elliott to have a small accident and then looking through his lookup before calling for help. Because he had discovered the truth, his behavior toward Michaela was different from the very beginning. He also realized that once she left teen level there would no more sibling joining up next and they would eventually forget all about their old surfing coach so his chance for level 1 luxurious would come to an end. He started out by being especially complimentary to her but she felt that he was trying to hard and that they rang false. He then asked her to persuade her oldest brother, Elliott to have him transferred as an individual tutor on the level 1 beach. Michaela refused so Bruce started being vindictive toward her. She finally quit the team and refused to take his calls. He tried to enlist her brothers and sisters by telling them lies, but ultimately she lost her temper and told all of her siblings the truth.

#### Blue Zone Power Cut

When Blue Zone lost their power for days, Michaela was trapped in an Elevator. Since it was only her in there and uninjured her priority was low. As a result she was trapped in the elevator for forty-seven hours, in the dark and with out food or water. She initially thought she would be ok, but when she got back to her room she realized that she wasn't ok from her ordeal. She started to hoard food and water and couldn't get into a lift or on to moving steps. She was placed on a therapy list but couldn't travel to anyone so it was a while before anyone could visit her for assessment and referral. By the time she was assigned a therapist in a nearby area they were concerned about the length of time for a memory reset. She worked through her problems but was alone and isolated for a long time. She wasn't able to travel to level 1 to visit her family so only talked with them on her dataview.

During the time she was working through her problems, Bruce started to torment her by moving his office in the community center area nearest her room and walking by her room talking in a loud voice or bumping against her door. She also became the commander of the teen game Blue Upway which she had not started. A boy in her corridor started it. They often had walked to the teen beach together but when she wasn't leaving her room, he would stop by and visit with her. He often complained about the amount of work it took so she started to help him with it. A few weeks later he dumped the entire mast stack on her and she took over the game. Since she was so lonely the interaction with the game players was all she had and in a weird way it helped her to send the players off to explore all of the places that she couldn't go to.

### Lottery 2532

She finished her therapy about a month before Carnival and was feeling very positive about everything, as well as resumed her visit to level 1. When she left for lottery someone grabbed her from behind and locked her into a storage room. The lights in the store room had been smashed so it was completely dark. She was locked in there for six hours before someone unlocked the door but by the time she go out of the room they were gone. She managed to get to her assessment center. The staff there took one look at her and called for a medical team. She reported Bruce to the hasties and the next day he told her that he go a Nosy to read Bruce's mind and said that he didn't know anything about it. At that time Michaela didn't know the truth about telepaths so figured it was one of the surf team members since Bruce had been spreading poisonous lies about her.

The medical center arrange for her to have six more months of therapy and arranged for her to go into lottery after Halloween. She didn't want Bruce to find out that she was going to go through lottery in six months so she told everyone that she was returning to teen level for a year, until next years main lottery. She kept running Blue upway for those six months, then the day for her to go to lottery again, she just left without a bag or notifying anyone. When she arrived at the lottery center they found some additional clothes for her and she finally went through lottery.

After her imprinting for Senior Ambassador, she went straight to Elliott's apartment and told her her results and everything that had been happening to her and why she lied about when she was going to go through lottery again. Once she told them everything, Elliott decided to send Michaela with the delegation to Hive Genex that was leaving in just a few hours to get her away so that Bruce couldn't do anything else to her. At the last minute she told them she had been running the teen game and they said that one of them would retrieve the mast stack as well as her possessions.

## Summary

### Borderline

When Amber's unit was assigned to shut down the teen game Blue Upway, he figures out who the game commander was and tried to contact her. When he was told that Michaela was at Hive Genex he assumed that she didn't know anything about who took over the game and was causing all of the problems. But after Forge was taken hostage and the message Lucas received from the new game commander made it clear that he was punishing Michaela, he contacted Hive Politics again and with Amber's assistance insisted on talking with Elliott. Elliott linked in all of his siblings to the call and they then told Lucas and Amber who was causing all of the problems. Michaela then told them the entire story about everything that had happened on Teen level. Then Elliott filled them in on the complications that happened as a result of their team going to Hive Genex.

When the team had arrived at Hive Genex they found out that Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement had discovered three more people from Hive England had been kidnapped over thirty years prior to the attempt on Amber.

Elliott hadn't sent an Adversary with the skill and knowledge to register a claim as part of the team. But since Michaela was imprinted with all knowledge of all roles she had the knowledge but no experience at all. Nor has her imprint totally integrated yet, but she was the only hope. If Elliott had tried to delay the claim until he could send someone with the experience, Joint Hive treaty enforcement would have released those three people from protective custody and Hive Genex could grab them and remove their imprints, which would also reset their memories back to when they were eighteen.

The other problem was that Michaela was tainted by running an illegal teen game.

{{quote|“If an Adversary has a personal history of criminal activity,” said Paula, “then Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement considers them tainted, and regards the claims they register and the evidence they present as suspect.”

Michaela was brilliant against the challenges of the new claim and Joint Hive treaty enforcement accepted the it. Ten minutes after Elliott had told Michaela to proceed with the claims, Paula discovered that the master stack for Blue Upway was missing from Michaela's room. Bruce has been blackmailing Elliott with outing Michaela to law enforcement, though he doesn't know anything about the more serious reasons why she can't be, he just thinks she will get a black mark against her name and Elliott would be embarrassed so he really hadn't been asking for much. He he knew of the more serious reasons he would have been taking even more advantage of Elliott.

### Adversary

Just made a brief appearance with her brothers and sisters.

## See also

* Hive Politics (Hive England)
* Blue Zone Power Cut
* Teen Games
* Hive Genex

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) (p. 335-337). 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