Birth of the Alliance by Alex Albrinck

Author:Alex Albrinck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Hard Science Fiction, High Tech, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Metaphysical & Visionary, Time Travel, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2013-08-06T23:00:00+00:00

XVI

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1969 A.D.

It was a conversation Will thought back on often, one he’d had with Hope five years after Adam’s death.

“What if she’s dead, Will? Perhaps that’s the reason we can’t find her.”

They’d learned that finding someone so proficient at hiding was no easy task. Will thought that the search would be straightforward. Eva would stay in one place long enough for them to locate her. Or perhaps she’d sense Adam’s loss and seek them out to get that confirmation. After nearly three decades of constant searching, though, they’d failed to find her.

Hope’s theory made sense. Eva had been alive as recently as the early 1940s, when Adam had died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Adam’s admonition to locate her had been made with that fact in mind. It wasn’t impossible to believe that Eva, like Adam, had met her demise in the intervening years.

“I don’t want to stop looking. Adam made it pretty clear to me that it was of utmost importance that we find her.”

Hope sighed. “I don’t want to give up, but if he just wanted us to know she was alive so we could let her know about his death… we don’t need to do that if she’s dead too, right?”

Will frowned, trying to connect several points of information. “I don’t think that’s the reason he wanted us to find her, though.” His voice trailed off as he struggled to articulate what was on his mind.

“What other reason could there be, though? Did he just want us to reunite after so many centuries apart? I’ve looked, Will. I looked for her before, and I’ve looked for her since. If she’s alive, she has no interest in being found.”

“He told me that finding Eva was the most important we could do.” He fixed Hope with a steady gaze. “He said that it was even more important than our research.”

Hope’s eyes widened and her face was touched with pain.

He’d tried to bring it up in the years since Adam’s death, but Hope’s sense of guilt over the nature of Adam’s sacrifice didn’t encourage conversation about his final moments, including the words he’d spoken. When Will had told Hope he was focusing his time Outside on looking for Eva, she’d asked why. But he’d never had the opportunity to discuss Adam’s other points; she’d ended the conversations.

The fact that he’d said it was more important than their research was difficult news to hear. The research had not gone well. What little progress they’d made was in identifying what the ambrosia did in terms of human reproduction. Will described it as the equivalent of reversing the polarity on magnets previously attracted. Rather than draw together, the ambrosia forced reproductive cells apart. They’d tried putting cells together outside the body to no avail.

Time was running short. Both of Will’s parents were now alive. Failure was becoming far too prominent a fact in their lives. The fact that Will was likely to vanish in some fashion in the next quarter century didn’t help.

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