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on scrolls. We're just now coming to terms with what's been around all along.
Thirty years of knowing, through new technologies never before available, is a
drop in the bucket of time compared to mankind's stories over millennia. Our
nuclear blasts opened the gateways even more between worlds, just like all of
our electromagnetic interference did. We trespassed on the supernatural turf
with our technology, now they're in our world in larger numbers than ever
before. In the past only a few at a time ever slipped through the "
The general held up his hand. "Spare me the history lesson. What's done is
done. My main concern is that the general public never knows what's actually
out there and that our wolves are controllable. Stable. They have got to help
contain what keeps breaching our dimension borders and wriggling out from the
other side. Imagine if the general public knew do you have any idea the level
of chaos and panic that would cause& not to mention what could happen on the
black market? What do you think would have happened if the general public
truly understood what was behind the Colombian Disaster?"
"I'm well aware "
"Are you?" The general looked at Xavier Holland hard, cutting him off again.
"If thugs and terrorists were to become able to call up these preternatural
species, kiss our civilization as we know it goodbye." He let out a long,
weary breath. "That's why you've been given an almost inexhaustible budget to
study the phenomena, develop a containment strategy, and monitor anywhere they
might be breeding."
While it was impossible to argue the general's point about the potential
dangers, they were at polar opposites when it came to methods of handling the
situation. Rather man add gasoline to the already roiling flame between them,
the doctor opted to remain silent for the sake of diplomacy. He had a full
team to consider. More importantly, Sasha and Rod were the eldest and at risk.
Darien Woods and Jim Fisher had a few years, but he didn't trust the general
not to take matters into his own hands.
Xavier Holland carefully studied the general's body language during the brief
standoff. Something was very wrong. The team's psychic monitors and tech
support shaman had whispered that truth in his ear. Winters had thrown the
bones. Clarissa had cut the cards. None of the other geneticists or
dimensional code breakers trusted the brass. The general was delusional life
as they knew it had already changed. There would be no going back to the old
way ever again. Control was impossible; coexistence was the only chance of
survival. The older, indigenous cultures knew how to combat the scourges of
the supernatural realms and live with the more harmonious elements within it.
Supernatural species couldn't be weaponized to fight human battles; the
concept was insane! But the doctor kept his expression serene as he listened
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to the general take a deep breath and then resume his hawkish diatribe.
From the very beginning, he'd tried to warn them. Injured soldiers that had
been medivaced out of the hot zone were viewed as living repositories of
scientific breakthrough. It was fast and sloppy work as soon as the human body
died, so did the active werewolf virus within it. The core medical team
thought those shredded men were turning into werewolves, and they were.
Despite the chaos, scientists on the Sinus Project were ecstatic. The answer
to their scientific questions had practically fallen into their laps. The
perfect sample to bond with human DNA was right before their very eyes.
However, what the general could never seem to grasp was that the werewolf
virus proved tricky.
Xavier Holland swallowed down the acid burning his esophagus. As the general
railed on, Holland reflected that the instability of the virus was the very
foundation concept that a man of war and a man of science would probably never
see eye to eye on. Defeat and fury raced through Holland's body, elevating his
blood pressure. It had been impossible to get the chain of command to
understand that, once the werewolf virus was introduced to a human, it
mutated, literally ate its way up the DNA chain until the human went mad and
Turned. In the end, they'd lost all of the soldiers to a Turn.
Unfortunately, rather than taking it as the warning it was to leave that
species alone project scientists guided by military pressure weren't allowed
to give up. In fact the brass believed that they had a breakthrough on the
medication that would suppress the Turn and that would be enough. It wasn't.
The more Xavier Holland remembered, the farther and farther away the general's
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