I don't really like this story. It's very rich, but also quite depressing. Poor Solange. This was apparently the second Talents story written (third in chronology), and it does a lot of good worldbuilding - establishing the kind of place that the Center is, the LEOs, how the Talents work, what the aims of Daffyd op Owen and the Center are for bringing in more Talents...But 'Maggie O' screwed up, and then things just keep getting worse. At least two unnecessary deaths. And the whole thing with Daffyd being a teleporter...confuses me. It's not mentioned again - and in fact I don't see teleporters mentioned as a standard Talent elsewhere in the books. If it can be done, it can be done again, and teleporting would be incredibly useful, so that makes very little sense to me. The interplay between op Owen and Gillings is nicely done, though. I like the setting, dislike the actual events depicted in the story. It is important to the progress of the Talents, though. ( )