The World According to Ellie Quin by Alex Scarrow

Author:Alex Scarrow [Scarrow, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00AHG49HM
Publisher: Grrr Books
Published: 2012-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Deacon looked up from his notes sprawled across the mahogany desk and stared out at Pacifica. He rubbed his eyes, then the bridge of his nose tiredly. He knew when he’d started that this was going to turn out to be the proverbial needle in the haystack. He was looking for one candidate amongst the tens of millions of paternal applications that had passed through the laboratories during Mason’s tenure as head of the Department of Genetic Analysis. He had hoped the late doctor might have been foolish enough to log somewhere in his private, locked, data directory the details of that child; a reference number, a name….something. But, having combed through the entire contents of his voluminous personal directory, it was clear that Mason hadn’t.

The directory itself was full of writings and commentaries that would certainly have ended his career without question if they had been discovered whilst he was alive. He had found essays condemning virtually everything about the Administration, and, more specifically, about the dictatorial way in which paternity requests were approved, or denied. He had discovered enough material to finish the man.

If he turned up now, washed ashore on one of Pacifica’s man-made atolls, he’d almost certainly wish he hadn’t.

Most importantly, there was the outline of his plan….The Plan. As Deacon read through the notes, it became quickly apparent that he was glimpsing a quite brilliant mind that had gone utterly insane. What Mason had been planning for some time, would bring an end to everything. But, there was nothing in there that Deacon could see would help him find the single Paternity Request that had been dangerously altered.

The candidate child.

Knowing of Mason’s distrust for all things modern, particularly digital records, Deacon suspected those crucial details he desperately sought might have been kept close to the old man, on his person, perhaps in an old leather-bound notebook, and now vaporised along with Mason and the other unfortunate passengers and crew aboard the shuttle.

Deacon sighed with frustration.

Since there was no knowing exactly when Mason had released his creation into the universe, there was also no knowing how much time they had; whether they had days, weeks, months or years to figure this thing out. The only way he could track down this child would be to look on the laboratory’s main database and view all of the Paternity Requests that Mason had personally checked-out and become involved with.

He’d done that. There were seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-two applications that he had personally overseen over the last two decades.

He decided to apply some logical analysis to whittle the number down. Mason would have been very careful to select the right candidate. Deacon decided to try and get inside the Doctor’s head…

He decided to start with basics. There were approximately thirteen hundred worlds, many of them could probably be ruled out as inappropriate. It was unknown to most of the greater population, but there were at least two dozen worlds right now that were in the middle of their own civil wars; these could be dismissed.

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