Chapter 18

Brother brings them tea. Father studies the man carefully. His size and features remind him so much of another.

He begins, "You are a relative of Nick. Why are you here?"

"How did you know?"

"It is not hard to discern. What features you have left uncovered gave me the clues. I was not totally positive until you spoke. You are his brother. What can we help with?"

Paul says, "We are here to talk to Brother."

Brother, "Paul we can speak freely. What is it you seek?"

"We need to know about the early days. All of the problems we are having, I think stem from someone who thinks he was wronged in those days."

"Mr. Austin, he is the one you seek."

"Why him?"

"We were doing something no one else has ever attempted. He felt we were not going far enough. He tried to persuade everyone to his way of thinking."

"What was his way of thinking?"

"He felt we should take over control over the governments. He thought we could run them better. He wanted us to put some of our smarter people in power. He did not realize that you could not control humans by telling them what to do or think. He became very annoying. He bugged everyone including our benefactor. He decided that he could find a way to change people. He started doing experiments in to the human genome. At that time, we did not have any way to keep track of what members were doing. It was not until he started doing experiments on humans that we realized he was insane. Samuel and David went after him. There was an explosion in the lab. David is the only one who survived. We burned everything. We made sure no one else knew about it. The only ones who know is David, our benefactor and me. We told everyone that Benny left us and that Samuel was killed on assignment."