I think a lot of the questions you're going to want to ask about this story are going to be the same, so I've decided to post the answers here rather than answer a parade of the same thing. These are the details that either would be explained by a previous story or aren't horribly important IMHO. If you think one of these should be worked in, and especially if you have an idea where, please let me know and I'll try it. Also, for those of you who don't get around to mailing me (or those who do, and don't get a reply for ages), this will be loads better than wondering for months.
And yes, it is pronounced "ack."
--No.
--No. He and the other kinetics get escorted to a safe(r) location via the Underground. Since 6 is about the trip made by a riot group, he's not there.
--He asks to go where Agera is going to end up.
--In most fantasy universes, people with telekinesis can't pick themselves up. This is a rule I also use for kinetics. They're subject to gravity just like we are. The other rule I use states that they can't use their Power to affect anything inside their bodies or anyone else's. This means that when they walk, they're being held up by their Power externally, rather than muscles internally, working in conjunction with their bones. Most kinetics walk with their legs, but the bone structure of Lidra's legs won't hold her up, so she uses her arms.
--No.
--Briefly, in story 6. (I've really got to beat that one into presentability.)
--Not really. Agera didn't come from the Japanese word ageru "give," even though it sounds like it should have, for the simple reason that when I made up the name I didn't know anything about Japanese. Torria was originally Torri, since I'd been listening to a lot of Tori Amos. It changed when I realized that all four kinetics were going to have five-letter names, and when I remembered that Torria is the name of a town in one of the CRPGs I've played, and that games in general are how I tend to escape. So that one kind of did, but not originally.
--Exactly what Savris says.
--They were. The other burning buildings in this story were the police and fire stations, and the main power plant. Later, large buildings with private 'porter stations were also bombed. I'm still deciding how the Board's main facility was gotten rid of with minimal loss of life.
--They'd have liked nothing better than to have been able to do that. But they were working under time and resource constraints, and they couldn't access the nets without being spied on. They couldn't come up with a way to completely destroy all the Power tech with no loss of life, mainly because the people in charge of maintaining it might be coerced into repairing or re-creating it. They didn't like the solution they came up with, but it was really all they could do.
--Originally, sympathizers in the fertilizer and electrical-supply trades. By the time they ran out, the riots were on, so they just stole more.
--No $#!+, Sherlock.
--By not telling the population at large that the cleaner, more efficient, energy-saving new mode of transportation was run by slave labor.
--The machines. The Board showed them off all the time with trick wiring to be able to demonstrate without a person visible.
--They lied. A lot. The full story appears in "Will," and I didn't want to over-recap. Please let me know if you think I should.
--You think they're allowed sharp objects?
--Um . . . itty-bitty combustion engines? Really strong batteries? Teeny fuel cells? I don't know. I'm suspending disbelief on this one.
--Over underwear, under coveralls. Cords only come out at neck, wrists, and waist.
--The situation is pretty comparable to the Wheel of Time stuff, but I didn't notice the similarities until I was through with the part of the original draft that takes place in the station. If you're Robert Jordan or his lawyers, I'm willing to take a polygraph test on this. And remember, damane don't get to watch TV or surf the net.
--Yes.
--Partial renders the person a paraplegic, paralyzed from the waist down. Full creates a quadriplegic. Either method is performed so that the person remains independent, something that wasn't always possible to guarantee.
--Because it used to be. Before better methods were discovered, the spinal cord was simply cut.
--Selective neuronal destruction. Ask the Board, not me.