Yet another missing slave was one thing, a
missing multi-million gold bead highly desirable Experimental Golden like Zara was the final straw, the king was furious. He summoned the gods to
resolve the issue once and for all. Malodon, Seton and Torus took the heat this
time. He slammed her red folder on the table, showering them with spit, flying
from his mouth as he scolded them loudly. Malodon found himself practicing
hearing loss techniques, he didn't need to be scolded, he too felt the loss, he
too was angry inside, he knew how the king felt.
"That cow was an endangered bloodline!"
Atalon went on and on. "There are VERY FEW Crystal Program examples! I want to
know which Expiree wasn't doing their job down there!"
"With
all due respect" Torus wasn't going to let his department take the blame
again, thanks to the doctor’s new Medification Program the TLS Program was a
sinking ship already, this was just an excuse to flog a dead horse. "I think perhaps they are
getting over conditioned, that’s why they’re so silent when Aquilla sneaks in and swallows them up.
They’re in shock."
"Rubbish!" Atalon snapped.
"Rubbish!" Atalon snapped.
"I
read her report" Torus dared to challenge. "Add two extra head
injuries, a heavy dose of BloodWine and then you go inject her with that
crystal crap. My god, she was probably inedible, anyway!"
Malodon could see a glimmer of light in
disguise. "That would back my Crystallization Theory, depending which way
you look at it."
"What theory?"
"The
more crystallized they are, the more they malfunction."
"You
have no idea what you're talking about!" Seton snapped, sensing blame directed
toward his program from two directions now. "How does their malfunctioning
make them silent victims?"
"Like
Torus said."
"SHUT UP!" Atalon bellowed. "Only TWO of her treatments were scheduled,
the third she deserved because she malfunctioned!"
The
gods were all aware of the underground passage to Lemuria, everyone realized it
was technically possible that Aquilla was sneaking into the prison and stealing
the Expirees, but no one had seen him or could prove it was true.
"If
it isn’t shock, then we’ve got a mole" Torus offered, ignoring the king. "Someone
they trust is letting them out and sending them into the tunnel. They can't get
out on their own."
"And
you think that someone is…"
"To feed Aquilla?" Seton was lost
now.
"Dell
warned us of this" Torus reminded, picking at the scab.
Atalon
scoffed. "And look what happened to Dell!"
Torus
stiffened in his chair while the king rejected his pitch without even
investigating the theory. It wasn’t the only theory they weren’t investigating. "What
if there are devastating impurities left behind by the medifications?" He
had a valid concern, unexpected results from Dr Seton's medications were common
and medifications were a whole new can of worms. "Have you seen all the
sick rabbits hopping around lately?"
"I
don’t test medifications on rabbits"
Seton reminded. "You need to face the truth, the TLS Program has run its
course, we have medifications now, this is nature’s way of telling us so."
Simmering,
the king circled the room, pondering the big changes and potential pitfalls to
their solutions. If they were having so much trouble at a microcosmic level, how
would the macrocosmic models fare? "Speaking
of testing medifications, how is the Finias Solution coming along?"
"It's
almost there" Seton assured, confident the latest project was moving forward on
schedule.
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