CANDY SAVANT by A.L. Hawke

Author:A.L. Hawke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

PANDORA’S BOX

Candice and Bren slept on adjacent beds in the clinic car of the HQ laboratory. Neither of them had bothered changing their white lab coats, preferring to lie in their coats on top of the covers. The twists and turns of the train didn’t wake them either. It seemed nothing could awaken them from their slumber. And Candice had told Rex not to disturb her. He didn’t have to.

Candice awoke to the sound of a baby’s cries. It was pitch dark in the clinic car, but she distinctly heard the cry coming from the direction of the caboose car. It was a few whimpers at first but then erupted into full-blown crying. Candice got so excited that she fell from her mattress onto the white tiled floor. Bren stayed asleep.

Candice ran to the door and waved her palm over the sensor. As the door slid open, she squinted against the bright light. This room was once the same surgical suite that had held her first organic mess, but from their work over the past few months, the room had been completely transformed into a nest of black and silver cords with a single small white metallic orb in the center. The black and silver wires reminded her of a spider’s web. So many of these wires and cords were present that they laced over the white floor and lower walls, turning them black.

She walked quickly into the room, trying to avoid tripping over the wires, and then stood above the orb. Lights of red, orange, and blue danced inside. It was a brilliant mechanism created by Rex. The walls of the orb were made of a polymer tougher than titanium, better able to withstand extreme temperatures than ceramics, and yet flexible enough to withstand an array of cutting and pulling. And under the orb was a hollow floor where instrumentation moved unseen by the floor of the train with Rex’s mechanical arms.

When Rex had first presented it to Candice months before, she had not been impressed. It had seemed so cold and inhuman. And, now lit up, it looked more like a Tesla plasma ball than a mechanism for creating a baby.

She searched around its shell to see how to open it. It smelled like burnt rubber and sterile disinfectants.

“How can I open it, Rex?” Candice asked.

“It is only ninety-eight point three percent complete, Savant Harlow. I would ask that you please exit into the other car until I clear the room. Return to sleep. It will open when I am ready.”

“Listen to it,” Candice said, shaking her head and staring at it. Then she laughed in excitement. “She’s crying! The experiment’s over, Rex. Open the egg. She’s crying!”

“There’s still two hours, twenty minutes and thirty-three seconds, Savant Harlow. I urge you to exit into the other car and rest. Go sleep beside Doctor Kelley. The specimen is not ready.”

“She’s crying! What more needs to be done?”

“Doctor Harlow, you are very excitable at the moment.”

“I’m fine.”

“No, Doctor. Your blood pressure has increased to one hundred and fifty-two over seventy.

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