"Continuing Time - 01 - Emerald Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys) 5
6 7 8 9 INTERLUDE: 2062-2069 AFTERWORD УIn The BeginningФ ^ ╗ I am the Storyteller. Hear now my voice. From out of the white noise of Creation, listen to my wordsЕ They were our forerunners, and they made plans, yes, for they were human, even as you and I. I have told this story before, and I shall someday tell it again, in a different fashion; but for Now, know the story soЕ They made plans, you see, and the universe, which cared no more for them than for you or I, struck them down; and its tool was nothing less than a pair of Gods of the Zaradin Church, one of them myself, fighting a battle in a war that was ended near sixty-five thousand years before they were ever born. I will tell you of those days. A title makes one knowable. УTell me about them,Ф he said softly. УO№i.Ф AmnierТs assistant was French; a depressingly large number of government employees were these days. УThe directorТs name is Montignet, Suzanne Montignet. She is French born, but arrived in the United States in 2015. It is thought that her parents were fleeing the European theater of the War. She was fourteen then. We do not have accurate records for her after leaving France; she arrived in America just a year before the Unification War reached that continent. Her parents were killed, apparently by Americans, after the War began. One would have expected this to turn a young girl against the country in which she found herself, but obviously not. When next we have accurate records of her, beginning in 2018, she was studying under a scholarship at the College of the Camden Protectorate, in New Jersey. She had by then, and retains today, a substantially American accent. Though she spells her name СSuzanneТ she had further taken to pronouncing her name СSusanТ in the American style, a habit which she also retains. In 2024 she graduated with high honors; two years ago, her work in geneticsЧit says here, sir, dee en ay, and ar en ay, Monsieur Amnier, which are explained to meanЧФ УI know what they mean.Ф УЕo№i. This work led to her current position with the United Nations Advanced Biotechnology Research Laboratory in New Jersey, this СProject Superman.Т Ф УDonТt use that name. ItТs not correct.Ф The command did not seem to require an answer; after a pause AmnierТs aide continued. УThe Ministry of Population Control has granted her an unlimited |
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