Living Lime by Cordelia Jade

Author:Cordelia Jade [Jade, Cordelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648762904
Published: 2020-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

15

An hour later my head was pounding, and no amount of massaging my temples fixed it. “I sat in there with Doctor Gordon for hours, and it still turns out he gave me an abridged version of that.” Two genetically engineered races fighting each other for hundreds of years made a lot of historical footnotes. Leprosy? Not a real thing. Leper colonies were where they sent the people that rejected.

Natalie fished through the pile again. “Most of that is lies, by the way. Only Gamils were genetically engineered, Borgens were just born that way and aren’t contagious. Here, this is what I found out about Samantha.”

The top of the page had been torn off, like the notes had been hastily pulled from a notebook. Other than that, it looked like one of my school science experiment reports minus the heading—only it talked about a person, not a chemical reaction in a beaker. The final conclusion deemed the experiment a failure, as a Margentil had been created, and made recommendations for future attempts.

“Natalie, this says the experiment of Samantha Gordon resulted in a Margentil. It must be some sort of scientific code. Doctor Gordon called Max’s mother Samantha that. Do you think it’s the same person?”

“Depends, does she look about ninety years old? These things are ancient, and while I did read some lines had longevity and appeared much younger, nothing like that under the Gordon banner. I say it’s a family name, and she’s the granddaughter. No one can stop time.”

This moment needed a photo for memorandum. Natalie had been wrong for the first time ever. Doctor Gordon controlled Max’s aging, and Rose travelled time. I couldn’t help but feel I’d been learning about the same woman who always read silently in the living room, husband at her side. From the context a Margentil seemed to be a code their scientists used to classify results. Instead of a scale of one to ten, they gave the progressions names. From the looks of this, Margentil fell under the bad banner.

Natalie handed me the next sheet of paper she deemed interesting enough to warrant my immediate attention.

“Have you found out what the Gordon family skills are?”

“Something to do with brains, or memories. It’s vague, and Doctor Gordon is the only one they have listed with skills. Whoever the Max I found is, he’s too young to have developed anything last time he’d been documented, which was a really long time ago.”

“What about human lie detectors? Do Gamils do that?”

Natalie thought for a moment and began shuffling through some notes. She read a page as she handed it to me. “It says here ‘work in progress.’ They haven’t figured out which genes to manipulate for that one on the last update.”

“Why are you doing all this?

Natalie gave me her stern look, placing her hands on her hips. “You’re my best friend, and Max is being a jerk about this. Plus, it’s my job to look out for you. I told you that.” She started to shoo me out the door.

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