Best Of You by Raymond Vogel

Author:Raymond Vogel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: insane, murder, genetics, evil corporation, genius, world domination, breeding
Publisher: AEC Stellar Publishing, Inc.

“Please, wait in here, Dr. Brooks.” Sally turns and takes one last step backward to usher me into a waiting room. “Watch for my introduction on the screen. This room is directly below the central platform. When you’re ready, the lift in the corner will carry you up.”

Sally pauses and looks back just before leaving me. She looks like she wants to say “good luck” or some other clichéd comfort, but she holds her tongue. Then, I’m alone. It seems like the first time in months that I’m not actively implementing a new plan. All the work has led to this morning, and now it feels good to just relax and wait for it to happen.

After several minutes, the wall before me lights up with an image of the main hall. The perspective is good, high enough to avoid being obstructed by the shuffling scientists but low enough to see many of their expressions. Would they be just as happy if they knew they were here for the sole purpose of extracting their life’s work from the face of the Earth? Not a chance. The most primitive human instinct of self-preservation would be there to undermine any such notion of the greater good.

“Please, be seated,” Sally says, her voice carrying across the hall. Two hundred individual conversations cease. Sally waits patiently while the last few attendees take their seats.

It really is too bad about Sally. She’s been extremely useful in her role – I doubt I’ll find many others who can do their jobs with as much competence.

Sally is standing just to the side of a small table with water on it. She seems so much like the water, steady and calm behind the thin microphone. The microphone is only vestigial, of course. The receptors stuck to her lapel will capture and distribute the audio. It’s just another relic, a trick to convince emotion-driven humans that they’re being reminded of a time when things were simpler, happier. It’s a ridiculous habit, and I see it everywhere. It’s fascinating to me how a species could survive thousands of years without ever fully learning to embrace an uncertain future.

“It is truly my honor to introduce perhaps the most talented young man to have ever lived to one of the few audiences capable of understanding him. He was made famous as the miracle of the late Dr. Turnbull, the famous architect of Best of You Incorporated’s groundbreaking genetics program. But your presence here is a testament to the fame he has earned since then. His work has had a tremendous impact on your careers and on how the world understands the most fundamental building blocks of every living organism.”

I move to the lift and step onto it. I carefully place my backpack beside my feet.

“Please, join me in welcoming the illustrious Dr. Charles Brooks.”

The lift rises up as the crowd rises to their feet. I am a rock star again, surrounded by obsessed fans hoping for a glimpse of the world through my eyes.

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