Ewen Cameron
Names: Ewen Cameronthe angelCitizen CameronIllusio
First appears in Book 3: Diamond Mask, chapter 9 (CSS DRUMADOON BAY [Hu 12-201] GALACTIC YEAR: LA PRIME 1-382-401/422 [6–20 JUNE 2062])
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 9Ewen Cameron, a white-haired man in a kilt, is a powerful telepath who tricked Dee into answering his farspeech to show her vulnerability.
- Ch 9Ewen Cameron placed in Dee's mind an 'angel', a mental way that protects her mask and prevents her from revealing her abilities, then erased her memory of him.
- Ch 9Ewen says it is important that Dee live with her father now, and says he is traveling to Caledonia to see friends.
- Ch 10A mysterious stranger who promised to help Dee; a voice calling itself the angel answers her metapsychic questions.
- Ch 10The angel says it is not really Citizen Cameron but a preprogrammed response with psychoanalytic discretionary options.
- Ch 10The angel tells Dee to be quiet, obedient and useful, and hide her powers, because Ian will fear them and cannot love what he fears.
- Ch 10The angel says the closed boxes hold powers that will eventually be needed, and Dee must someday leave Caledonia for her life's work.
- Ch 10Dee senses the man Ewen Cameron speaking through her mind's guardian; she angrily says the angel is 'HIM', then is made to forget.
- Ch 15The angel urges Dee to tell Ken about her coercion and to rescue him, advising her to use her creativity to thicken the air.
- Ch 20Angel, a mental voice, told Dee to solve her danger through creativity, heat and cold rather than psychokinesis, and that she must help herself.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 9Ewen Cameron meets Dee
Ewen pulls Dee from the hyperspace viewport, tricks her into answering farspeech, warns her of the danger from Gran, implants a protective mental 'angel', then erases her memory of him.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival on Caledonia
Dee, Ken and Masha land at the starport in a storm; Dee is overwhelmed by crowd telepathy, hears the angel, and learns Ian cannot meet them because of the airplant harvest.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Dee and the angel
Dee, distressed that her father doesn't want her, begs the angel for help; he advises hiding her powers, then makes her sleep and forget.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee coerces the fairies
Dee mentally orders fairy-critters out of her way and they all flee. Her angel reveals her coercive metafaculty has broken out, to her dismay.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee rescues Ken with psychokinesis
Prompted by the angel, Dee halts time, untangles the parafoil, and lands Ken softly on a grassy islet. Her father sees everything, and the flight recorder logged it, so she cannot hide her powers.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Escape from the Spouting Horn
Drowning in the lava tube, Dee follows Angel's hint, freezes water to plug the blowhole and superheats the chamber, blasting herself and the child out to sea before passing out; Malama sends windsurfers to rescue her.