Dr. Xavier Pekoni slowly turned his gaze and stared dispassionately at his assistant. He adjusted his spectacles and tossed his shoulder length silver pony tail back over his collar before he reprimanded, “Leroy, our forever code project is designed to intercept the degenerative tissue problems in human beings, as well as refresh the body’s DNA encoding, so the life force of the individual can allow living for a thousand years. Since we are still unable to make it work to my satisfaction yet, and time on this planet is still so precious, I don’t want to waste any of it listening to how your day went. Can you simply get to the point and outline our next steps? I’m in a hurry and expect you to be on the same schedule with me! Our all-important time continuum is collapsing to a finite point, so don’t waste any of it!”
Leroy recognized that tone and, swallowing hard, he offered, “Apologies, Dr. Pekoni. Your missing test subject has been located, but her care giver is unwilling to allow me access to her. So I am exploring other options, for both regular channels and otherwise, to determine how best to reintroduce her into our program time line.”
Xavier nodded approvingly and agreed, “That’s better. We have successfully completed our preliminary testing with organs in animals, but we must see how we succeed or perhaps stumble with a human subject. The regenerative process on lost neural pathways in the brain will be our next milestone, and I don’t want to miss our time line. Do you understand?”
Leroy, now somewhat intimidated, responded, “Yes, Dr. Pekoni, I understand. But in any case, whether we use legitimate means to extract her or otherwise, we cannot risk activity that would generate high exposure and attention to your project. The setback we incurred in exiting the U.S. operations was a good but unfortunate lesson in what not to do or who to trust. Therefore, we will need to extract her quietly and leave no trace of her to be followed. Those were your instructions, and I have not forgotten.”
Xavier almost smiled as he reminded, “As I have pointed out, our time is running out. I want answers for the forever code before the squeamish, bleeding hearts show up again and say you can’t test with humans! Once we have the right formula, no one will care how we got there because they will all be pushing and shoving while standing in line to buy our service for a tenfold life span boost. So, you’re right, we must be quiet about who and where we are.”
Leroy concurred, “Yes, Dr. Pekoni.”
Then with a renewed seriousness, Xavier asked, “When is the unscheduled field trip for the former Master Po to be arranged?”
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