Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Chapter Two: Identifying
There were
moments in history when Jim thought he had found the individual he was looking
for, but the timing was not right, he could not engineer the crises he required
in time to take advantage of their gifts, if those gifts could be fully
developed; a prince in the Himalayas, a fisherman in Palestine, a camel driver
in Arabia, separated from each other by hundreds of years. The timing was never
right.
His work was
like sifting the sand of the ocean floor or the full harvest of finely milled
flour through an equally fine meshed screen. He needed to touch every particle,
to look at each one as it passed through the sieve.
Jim built systems into the social fabric, systems of
reporting that allowed him to identify those who carried the genetic structures
he was looking for, to build upon them.
He did not have to rely on his network of spies and
informants for this. The reporting simply bubbled-up. He learned to take
greater efforts in concealing the lives of these extraordinary peoples.
A trait in the Iris, the contour of an earlobe, the shape
of a thumb, the texture of hair, physical traits that marked a new born child
as distinct, they were the talk of the village, and news carried fast.
Investigators would be dispensed.
Cognitive testing followed, and depending on the results,
Jim would place an emissary of some type close to the individual; to protect
them, to watch over them, sometimes they would be as intimate as a teacher or a
private tutor, at other time they might simply be a remote benefactor.
These were always extraordinary people, it was difficult
to contain their fame, they had a deep connection to their world and their
people through the cynergenic field, they might also be blessed with great
physical beauty, strength and power.
Jim would often attempt to hide them, to secure their
genetic material for his breeding program, to hide their offspring if he could.
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