able to handle the lessons ...even better, he
understood what they were saying and could learn them. After several
more hypnotic sessions and hard study North's confidence grew as did
his ability, until one day he looked up at his friend in wonder. "If
your mother's people have known about hypnosis for so long, why haven't
our people been taught this knowledge? Surely The Lord God can see the
benefits it would bring our people!"
19 "I don't know," Morn replied. "From what my mother has said, your
people knew of this process long before they conquered her world. But
it has been kept the secret of The High Ones. Only certain Doctors and
Teachers know of it. The Lord God feels it too dangerous a thing for
the common people to know."
20 "Strange," North sighed with a shake of his head, but that was all.
The two returned to their studies forgetting the thought. But North
couldn't help thinking "Morn is almost exactly my age, yet he is so
much wiser. No wonder he is The Lord God's favorite!"
21 As the months passed North studied hard. When the quarterly Tests
came, he was ready. All the boys stood by the readout, as usual.
22 Little was said until North's scores came on the screen, then, every
eye widened. "Wow!" gasped one boy. Another whistled. "Will you look at
that?" someone said, "Twenty percent increase on language, thirty per
cent in math! He's now the second highest in class!" All eyes turned to
Morn and then to North and nothing else was said.