"Continuing Time - 01 - Emerald Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys)

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INTERLUDE: 2062-2069
AFTERWORD




“In The Beginning”
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I am the Storyteller.
Hear now my voice. From out of the white noise of Creation, listen to my words…
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 so…
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.

Darryl Amnier was a man without a title.
A title makes one knowable.
“Tell me about them,” he said softly.
“Oьi.” Amnier’s assistant was French; a depressingly large number of government
employees were these days. “The director’s 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 ‘Suzanne’ she had further taken to
pronouncing her name ‘Susan’ in the American style, a habit which she also
retains. In 2024 she graduated with high honors; two years ago, her work in
genetics—it says here, sir, dee en ay, and ar en ay, Monsieur Amnier, which are
explained to mean—”
“I know what they mean.”
“…oьi. This work led to her current position with the United Nations Advanced
Biotechnology Research Laboratory in New Jersey, this ‘Project Superman.’ ”
“Don’t use that name. It’s not correct.”
The command did not seem to require an answer; after a pause Amnier’s aide
continued. “The Ministry of Population Control has granted her an unlimited