Kevin stood in an alcove in the Summer Palace gardens, waiting for Healer Bates. It had been ridiculously easy to appear there unnoticed by any due to the trysting spots conveniently spaced around the gardens. It galled him that he needed the healer to gain access and claim his new slave. While he could whisper in her mind readily enough, due to the medication level she was on, he couldn’t simply command her to come to him. The medication she’d been drugged with since she was a child blocked her from accessing her greater powers. They’d had much greater success and survival rates finding and medicating those who would be Kin from childhood than dosing them later in life. Even though he had a certain level of control over ones who’d been treated this way, he still needed to get his hands on
