Adika

## Family Members

**Relationship:** Megan

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## Biography

### Personality

Adika is very assertive and willing to take charge. He can adapt to events with lightning speed, but finds uncertainty stressful. Now that he is in his mid-thirties, he wants to settle down and longs for children - a desire that he shares with Megan.

Amber notes that his mind has *"such sharply defined edges that it could have been carved with a chisel"*

### Freedom Day

When Adika was 10 years old and celebrated his Freedom Day, he deliberately went into the waste system and then tried to clean himself up in a shopping zone. A hasty arrested him, but when told that it was his Freedom Day, the hasty just gave him a warning and escorted him home.

### Lottery

Adika came out of Lottery imprinted for Strike team leader.

### Work History

He spent ten years in Mira's Unit as a Strike team member, but did not become a deputy Strike team leader because Mira preferred another person in the role as deputy.

While in Mira's unit, he was Penelope's ballroom dancing partner until she transferred to Sapphire's Tactical team.

Adika then transferred to Morton's Unit as a deputy Strike Team leader and spent seven years there until Amber was discovered by lottery of 2532.

## Unit Responsibilities

Adika is in overall charge of the Strike teams, unit security, and Amber's safety. He is paranoid where her security is concerned, and performs daily checks on her apartment.

He has two deputy Strike team leaders who came out of Lottery at the same time as Amber. Rothan is in charge of the Alpha Strike team and is Adika's designated successor and second-in-command. Forge is in charge of the Beta Strike team and third-in-command.

Adika demands perfection from his teams and brings them up to operational standard in record time. He can be harsh (as when he tries to fire Kaden for a momentary lapse of weakness).

## Summary

### Telepath

Adika is the third mind Amber reads and is confirmed as Amber's Strike team leader. He is almost immediately attracted to Megan. However, Megan is still mourning her husband and unsure if she should have a relationship with Adika. Her indecision greatly frustrates Adika, and their conflict ends up causing a lot of strife for Amber and adds to her initial problems.

Due to the Strike team's general lack of experience in this book, Adika leads the team on all their runs. He is particularly interested in the five candidates for the two deputy positions, knowing that they will eventually take his place. He eventually chooses Rothan as deputy for the Alpha Strike team and Forge for the Beta Strike team.

After the emergency run with the three-year-old child in the park lake, Adika realises that the Strike team lack skills and experience in certain areas. He decides Strike team should have swimming training. He suggests Outside training as well, but Amber refuses.

To his horror, Adika learns that Amber had been kidnapped and imprinted as a child. He leads the Strike team as Amber adjusts to Outside and chases down her kidnapper.

### Defender

By *Defender*, Adika and his deputies have recruited the Beta Strike team.

He and Megan continue to have issues in their relationship, and this affects Amber's focus during a crucial run. Adika is shocked when Megan announces her resignation. He does not understand why he remains interested in Megan until Buzz helps him realize that he, like Megan, wants a steady relationship and a family. When Megan decides to stay in Amber's unit and have her deceased husband's children, she and Adika decide to get married after the children are born.

### Hurricane

During the hive's beach run, Lucas has Adika project an image of Amber as the light angels and Adika as justice to encourage a hostage child to run towards Adika and away from her kidnapper.

Adika, like the rest of Amber's team leaders, is baffled at the irregularities of the sea farm. He is concerned about the sea farm's relatively relaxed security procedures - particularly when another Hive's fishing fleet asks for safe harbor, and when Megan decides to help operate on an injured person from that fishing fleet.

Adika is also stunned to find out that the murderer they had been tracking is a ten-year-old girl.

### Borderline

Adika's challenge in this book is Tobias, a Strike team member whose personal resentment has affected his performance. When Tobias fails to report for a run, and Adika's analysis afterwards reveals that Tobias' absence caused the run to go awry, Adika decides to transfer Tobias out of the unit. Because Adika is trained to adjust quickly to new situations, he does not initially understand why Amber wants to keep Tobias. At Amber's insistence, he reluctantly agrees to give Tobias a last chance. His misgivings prove correct and Tobias becomes a wild bee. During the run to stop Tobias, Rothan relegates Adika to the bodyguard team because Adika is Tobias' first target. Adika later voices his public approval of Rothan's actions in a "fake public firing ritual"..

Adika chooses to spend the New Year festival guarding Amber, as Megan is spending one last New Year with her deceased husband's family.

### Adversary

Adika is moody as he ponders how alone he has been and that Megan is spending the New Year festival with her deceased husband's family one last time. With all of the interruptions Amber is getting for work, he is kept busy. When they are heading for a few hours of sleep after the New Year changes to 2533, they have to go on a check run near the area they are staying in but on levels 96 thru 100. Adika is worried because he has so few strike team members with him for this run so he orders a couple of strike team members that are celebrating the festival in Blue Zone but different areas to join them. He sends Forge out as the lead for the chase team while he leads the bodyguards for Amber and Lucas. During the check run, there is no danger but they find a worrisome situation that will have to be monitored.

The next day he is delighted when Megan arrives at the Circle of Life service to walk the steps of life with him. When Megan is ordered to get out of Blue Zone, they both go to Red zone to spend time with Adika's family. But when he learns that Morton had an emergency life-saving operation they hurry back to Blue zone to tell Amber and the rest of the people with her. When Amber recalls her unit back to active duty to help take up the slack with Morton's early operation, they are called out on a run right away. During the run, since Adika is the only strike team sharp shooter, he is authorized to take a kill shot on the wild bee that they are hunting. He takes the shot but at the same moment Forge kicked the wild bee in the head, breaking his neck. Adika realizes that he has to start training someone else as a sharp shooter, too. Eventually he will train both Rothan and Forge, but feels that they are under too much pressure right then for the training. Amber suggests that he train Warwick.

Adika is unhappy that Amber will be interviewed by Chief Examinant Rune and Adversary Aura from Hive Genex and only marginally satisfied that it will be done by holo.

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Telepath (Hive Mind Book 1) (p. 48). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) . 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