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“Dorian also died twice in Antarctica, if the reports are true Ares could have filled in the blanks”
“Yes… that is possible Ares could have easily added additionalhis resurrection there As for Kate, the memories, in the recesses of her mind, they would have exerted some influence, steered her decisions, like subconscious cues” He paced away fro abnor for a way to stabilize the Atlantis Gene and coht, seely somewhere else
“So… what happened to you?” David asked, for lack of anything else to say
“Nothing For thirteen thousand years, nothing happened tomy dead companion had failed My last option was to kill ram my own resurrection in the other compartment But I was unable to do it I had seen what had become of those from my home world who had died a violent death, the people in the tubes in Antarctica, those trapped in perpetual purgatory So I went into the tube, and I re soe”
David knew instantly what “the change” was In Antarctica, David had held off Dorian and hisKate and her father to escape Her father had exploded two nuclear devices in Gibraltar, shattering the piece of the lander he had unearthed “The nuclear blasts”
“Yes They moved the section I was in closer to northern Africa Morocco and Ceuta specifically I immediately activated my link to the ship I sahat had happened in Gibraltar, then I connected to Antarctica and watched the footage there I knew you had sacrificed your life to save a man, a woman, and two boys The other man, who I did not knoas Dorian at the tiallant You observed the Human Code, our morality You had a respect for human life I knew Ares, and I kneould happen next You and Dorian were eneht to the death and take the winner I decided to download your data feed I had to reveal nature The rest you know Upon your death, you awakened in the part of the ship I had been confined to I programmed the tubes to self-destruct—to ensure you went forward, venturing out”
“Why? What did you think I could do?”
“Save lives I sahat kind ofelse, so more: you led me to a cure”
“You couldn’t have known,” David said
“No I had no idea For the first time in thirteen thousand years, my part of the ship was near land I could escape The world I found horrified me, especially the Imatist I was not aware of Continuity at this point Fro theto use their knowledge, to find a cure”
“Your cure It’s a fake, isn’t it?”
“It is quite real”
“What does it do?” David demanded
Janus glanced at the stone box that lay at the edge of the soft yellow light from the cube “It corrects a o”
“Speak English”
Janus ignored David’s order He simply stared at the box “The alpha was the last piece I needed I can’t believe they saved it across the ages”
“Last piece of what?”
“A therapy that will roll back all of our genetic updates—everything, including the Atlantis Gene The re humans on this planet will be as they e found them”
CHAPTER 92
Somewhere off the coast of Italy