Buzz

## Family Members

**Parents** Unnamed Teachers

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## Biography

### Personality

Buzz is a happy chatty person who enjoys talking with other people. She also adores fashion and loves dressing in Level 1 clothes, but has no problems with dressing down to help her patients be more at ease.

### Early Years

Buzz's borderline telepathy surfaced when as a child she witnessed a murder. Her glimpse of the murderer's mind made her realise that she must run or she would be killed. Due to her young age, her borderline telepathy took the vaguer form of "intuitions". A telepath's Strike team arrived in time to protect her, but her mind could not be reset because of her telepathic ability. She had ordinary therapy instead. Because the Hive hides incidents of violence, Buzz's parents were not told what happened. Buzz's therapist advised her parents to believe her when she had nightmares, but her parents did not believe her; instead they made fun of her and jeered at her.

Even though she maintained a relationship with her parents as an adult, it became strained and she finally realized that she had to break all contact with them as it was influencing and hindering her own growth.

### Lottery 2530

Because she is a borderline telepath, there are limited imprints available. Buzz was imprinted as a levle 1 specialists in victim trauma treatment and forensic psychology for Health and Safety, Law Enforcement division.

### Work History

Buzz went through Lottery in 2530, two years prior to Amber. She was discovered to be a borderline telepath and was imprinted and assigned work as a Level 1 Psychological Therapist. She did not go through Lottery's optimization phase.

When Amber was 17 and injured her head in *Perilous*, Buzz was the nosy who arrested Amber's attending paramedic. Buzz noticed that she was getting no insights from Amber, which was unusual. She was curious enough to go back as herself and assess Amber.

### Unit Responsibilities

At the beginning of *Defender*, Buzz is recruited to be Amber's counselor. On the side, Buzz also works with other unit members who are particularly distressing Amber because of their problems.

During *Hurricane*, Buzz takes a more active role during a run. She later mentions to Amber that she hopes to be able to develop her role in the unit more fully.

## Summary

### Perilous

Buzz is introduced in Perilous when she councils Amber after her head injury while cliff climbing. Amber takes an immediate liking to her.

Buzz helps rescue people in Blue Zone during the power outage. When Forge is caught in the air vents, Buzz decides that Forge should wear a tracking bracelet for a month as punishment to try to curtail his high risks tendencies.

### Defender

Buzz is recruited as Amber's counsellor, replacing the therapist aspect of Megan's role in the unit. During their initial conversation, Buzz confesses to Amber that their first meeting was when Buzz was acting the role of a nosy and arrested the paramedic taking Amber to a medical clinic.

Amber is somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that Buzz was the nosy that terrified her, but decides to try to make this arrangement work. They both agree that Amber would not read Buzz's mind to keep their sessions like two friends chatting.

Buzz is also reintroduced to Forge and is attracted to him. She also starts working on overcoming her fear of Outside.

### Hurricane

Buzz has only a minor role in this story. She assists in Amber's beach run with her knowledge of Hive schooling. Buzz and Amber also chat about Amber's feelings of being a telepath, from Amber's enjoyment of Level 1 luxuries to her lingering desire to be ordinary.

At the end of the book, she assists Lucas with interrogated the murderer they went to the Sea Farm to capture. She also determines that they are totally irredeemable and will be securely confined for life.

### Borderline

Buzz plays a larger role in this book. She becomes more forceful in intervening in situations that causes Amber anxiety, such as when Megan and Adika argued in front of Amber. Buzz also works with Megan to establish a special private park / animal area for Amber's use to help Amber cleanse herself of echoes without leaving the Hive. She also confesses to Amber that she is having a hard time overcoming her fear of going Outside and hasn't made much progress but is still working on it.

When Forge has to go undercover on teen level, Buzz isn't very happy about his disguise and pays Lucas back for assigning him that role. When Forge is missing, she takes on a professional attitude in assisting the Tactical team, but is still frantic with worry.

Buzz helps Gregas overcome his fear of nosies and to understand his newly emergent borderline telepathic abilities. She also makes several suggestions for him to consider and tells him he will have to have weekly counseling, which if he wants he can have with her or she can find someone else for him.

She decides to cut contact with her parents and their negative influence on her, and celebrates the New Year with Amber on Level 27. Just before New York comes, Forge joins Buzz in witnessing the coming of 2533.

Earlier, through a slip of Forge's in setting his crystal com unit, it becomes known to the whole unit that Buzz and Forge are mainly seeking physical intimacy in their relationship and not romance, but yet ....

### Adversary

Buzz is celebrating the New Year festival with Amber at her families park when she is confronted with Franklin, the man she witnessed killing a woman when she was four-years-old and who than spent hours trying to find Buzz in her hiding place. A badly shaken Buzz, just a few days later witnesses her boyfriend, Forge kill a wild bee by breaking his neck. The combination of events traumatizes Buzz to the point that she retreats within herself and presents a cold, professional front to everyone else as well as breaking up with Forge.

But it only takes a week or so before Buzz comes out of and returns to her old self and makes up with Forge.

## See also

* Amber's Unit
* Health and Safety

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Defender (Hive Mind Book 2) (p.51). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)* (2017). 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