In a World Where Telepathy Reigns

It's the year 2050, 12 years after scientists discovered cognitive use of 100% of the human brain. Since then, humans have been able to do certain 'tricks' with only their willpower. Certain uses of the brain, such as Telekinesis and Telepathy have created a new power-based hierarchy, and not just a few wars. The fact that every human doesn't have the same amount of power doesn't help.

When Telepathy was uncovered, scientists discovered that every human has a 'bondmate'; someone born at the exact same time as them, and this timing enforces a similarity of power, and instant connection of their telepathy. Each person can feel their bondmate at all times, and this often caused problems for those with sadistic mates. Each mate-pair is one boy and one girl, and if they found each other, they often stayed and married that person. Not everyone found their mate, though. The rise in suicide rose due to depression of never seeing that person, and the population fell by half. The World now only contains 3.5 billion people, and the standard of living rose.

These days, many parents go to find their child's bondmate immediately, and most succeed. I was one of those children. I was raised in a joint family between me and my bondmate. Her name is Amanda, mine is John, but most of the time we are just "we". Because of our early connection, we are closer than a brother and sister, and have our lives to show it. I never went somewhere without her, and the same was repeated for me. We told each other everything, and shared everything we had. For everyone, up until their 13th birthday, they could only speak telepathically to their bondmate, but at the age of 13, sometime before the year is up, the bond grows stronger, and powers expand. This is when a person sees how powerful they will be, for the rest of their life. The power level cannot change, and the lower the power, the worse the life.

Being born at the same time, every bond-pair changes at the same time, and many see it as the moment they become truly one unit, 2 bodies, but one mind. Of course, separation is possible, and often used for daily life, but not wanted. Amanda and I we eating lunch when it happens. We had heard how painful it was, but were not prepared for the searing pain of a thousand suns, melding our minds behind our eyes. We both passed out from the pain at the same time, and woke up together in a hospital bed. Opening my eyes, the bright light above me blinded me for a moment, and I closed my eyes to adjust. Once I could see properly, I raised my head to look around. Immediately, my head was assaulted by the booming of a headache, and lay still, groaning until the pain went away. Trying a safer approach, I looked over to Amanda and saw her staring at me. Her eyes were clearer than what I'm sure mine looked like, and she slowly sat up until she was upright and looked around our room. I followed her example and sat until we were level, and looked around, surprised at how little pain I felt now. The room was bland, the usual hospital room. White walls, silver lining, medical equipment, and nothing else. I looked back to her and tried to speak, but found I couldn't use my voice just yet. I resorted to Telepathy, and found my voice extremely clear.

*You OK? My head was really hurting there for a moment.*

Then I heard her in my head, and sat back surprised. Her voice sounded like she was actually speaking. Before, it had always been slightly fuzzy, but now it was crystal clear, and I reveled in it.

*Yeah, I'm fine. I got the headache, too, but it passed. I wonder how powerful we are?*

*Well, if you can stand, we can go find out*

I swung my legs to the edge of the bed, and slid off, ignoring the slight pain in the back of my head. She followed suit, and we proceeded cautiously out of the door to the hallway. Looking around at the deserted corridor, we saw a large room at

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