A Coming of Age

The children of Tigris have extraordinary telekinetic gifts-but are these special powers a blessing or a curse?

On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they're pre-teens, though, their special abilities peak, then slip away as they reach maturity. Being able to "teek" gives them power-even over most adults-until they gradually become regular teenagers, no longer special, no longer with authority and status. Some handle the Transition better than othe...