Having their own team of psionic agents, they imbued Telzey with a geas against abusing her talents, then left Telzey free to get on with her law degree. The Psychology Service is quite aware of Telzey, who made use of her expanded talents to rewrite her aunt’s mind to be less evil. The Psychology Service has a keen interest in Class Twos, both as potential resources and as potential threats. Where Class Ones have single, well-defined talents, Class Twos can in theory develop every possible psionic ability. She is now what the Federation of the Hub’s Psychology Service deem a Class Two psi. Telepathic contact with the crest cat’s intimidating leader, Iron Thoughts, has amplified Telzey’s rudimentary psi talent. They see two choices: either humans recognize crest cats as an intelligent people with human legal status and rights, or the surprisingly numerous cats will wipe humans off Jontarou. Now they’re figuring out what they’re going to do about the troublesome humans infesting their world. They are more than large, smart predators with amazing powers of camouflage they’re also intelligent beings with prodigious psionic powers.

Telzey uses her legal training to verify the existence of the conservation regulation … as well as to identify various loopholes that Telzey can use to stall the case for decades.īut even more significant is the fact that crest cats are not extinct they’ve only gone into hiding. By drawing attention of the Life Banks bureaucracy to Tick-Tock, Halet can cost Telzey her pet while claiming to serve the greater good. Conservation laws mandate relocating remnant endangered species to the Life Banks, where they will be preserved in a zoo. Halet’s malice leads her to attack Tick-Tock.Ĭrest cats are, as far as anyone knows, extinct in the wild on Jontarou.

The pair have been inseparable since Telzey first met Tick-Tock as a kitten. Telzey has a beloved pet, the crest cat Tick-Tock. Halet is not the only person in whose schemes Telzey features.

Halet is full of saccharine spite she has plans for her excessively intellectual niece. She is on Jontarou, visiting her least-lovable aunt, Halet. Unfortunately for her, Telzey is not currently on Orado. Telzey Amberdon is a bright, fifteen-year-old second-year law student at the prestigious Pehanron College on Orado. Schmitz’s 1964 The Universe Against Her is a fix-up and expansion of the novelette Novice( 1962) and the novella Undercurrents ( 1964).

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