Somebody's watching

Someone was watching him. Kard could feel it. It was a warm wash of emotion. Pity, he decided, an emotion he had not felt in a long time. Someone was feeling pity for him. "How strange," he said.

He stood up from the rough surface and stepped back from the edge of the roof. Little rocks clung to his skin, impressing their shape into him leaving pock marks like a hail damaged car. He brushed the pebbles away. That's when he noticed he was not completely dressed. He felt vulnerable with his backside showing in the night.

The feeling of being watched was on him again. This time stronger. He looked around about for anyone, but found no one nearby. Frantic, he took to looking in unlikely place on the rooftop passing as close as he dare to the edge and attempting to surprise anyone behind the A/C unit.

He sensed even more eyes upon him. Someone was invading his space. He could feel it. "Who is there?" He reached with his mind. A tendril of thought touching the air around him, seeking out the intruder. Another tendril reached out from his mind as if to taste his surroundings. Then another mental probe shot out in a desperate attempt to find the ones watching him. He found something. People, a group of them, focused upon him. Eyeing him.

"voyeurs," he thought. "Come to take stock of a half-naked man on a roof?" he asked.

His tendrils reached out for the watchers and tried to grab them. They were slippery minds. He could not get a good grip on their thoughts. He felt one of them project toward him. It was fear, loathing, and something like, what? Curiosity? It was hard to tell, but yes. It must have been curiosity.

He followed the the curious line of thought that reached for more information. He seized upon it and pulled as hard as he could. The watchful minds reacted quickly and cut his tendrils free. They were gone.

Kard filled his lungs with air and cried out in frustration. A steady scream burst forth from his lungs enhanced by his psychic ability. The result was a wave of sound that exploded outward, causing nearby windows to shatter.