This is an abuse of power, and I can assure you that my client and I won’t stand for it lying down.
I can also assure you that this is not over. These baseless accusations of dealing drugs will be proven false, and you will be sorry you decided to accuse my client of a crime he didn’t commit.
Yours sincerely,
Adele Hamner
Attorney-at-Law
Not bad, darling, but a few notes:
• Donnie’s “maiden” name is Chubbs, not Stubbs.
• It’s a civil suit, not a civil suite, and it’s arraigned, not arranged.
• I don’t think you can stand for something lying down, really.
• You should probably get new letter head that spells the word “attorney” properly
—Felix
Entire definition of “intellectual property” in Clause 1 is called into question by Dyad and Topside patenting the clones.
Clause 2.2 says that any materials must be provided—this could include blood sample and urine, which is contrary to Aldous’s promise that any medical tests would be noninvasive. Language vague and dangerous.
Clause 12.8 is maddeningly vague, as “time is of the essence” could literally mean anything, and that clause could be used to justify shortcuts that would be dangerous.
From the diary of Dr. Delphine Cormier, Dyad Institute
I put it off as long as I could.
While Marion is aware of Sarah’s rather crippling attack on Rachel, Topside in general is not aware, and it would not bode well for any of the Leda clones if that news got out. Unfortunately, one of Topside’s cleaners, a Ferdinand Chevalier, is coming to inspect the premises soon. I must convince Sarah to disguise herself as Rachel. She already has convincingly acted as Detective Childs, and her past as a con artist will prove invaluable in fooling Chevalier. From what Marion has told me, and what I have read in his file, Chevalier is sufficiently narcissistic that he will not even notice as long as Sarah is at least mildly convincing. I am avoiding the issue. I went to Felix’s flat in the hopes that Sarah would be there—and in the fear that Cosima would be. My resolve, it was easy to maintain as long as I was not in her presence, as long as I could not see her eyes peering at me through those thick-framed glasses, as long as I could not smell the soap she uses, as long as I could not feel her hand touching mine.
Ah, me, I came so close. For a brief moment, I almost broke, I almost took her in my arms and promised my ever-lasting devotion. But I did not. I stood fast. I told Cosima that in order to save her and the rest of her sisters, in order to keep my promise to love them all, I needed to not be her lover. It destroyed her. However, it will also save her. I must now keep it from destroying me.
My life, it seems, is awash in unintended consequences. Simple enough, I thought: monitor one of Dyad’s projects. I did not anticipate falling in love. So then, again now: I thought it would be simple enough to keep my relationship with Cosima professional, to be her doctor, and to make sure that the Leda clones are safe. I did not anticipate her seeking out another to be with.
It began when a standard online sweep revealed a profile on Sapphire for Cosima. My initial reaction was shock that she would put herself out there so blatantly. There was no last name, but that name and that face are both fairly distinctive. The computer program, it found her easily, which means Castor or the Proletheans or any number of other people who have an animus toward Leda might also find her that way.
We already know that two Castor clones attempted to kidnap one of the Ledas, a young woman named Krystal Goderitch, and that Project Castor also has Helena in their custody.
Now Cosima is putting herself on a dating app! I should not be jealous. It was I who stopped any possible resumption of our relationship before it could re-commence. She has every reason to move on, to see other people.
But an online dating app? I should not be jealous, no, but I do believe I have a right to be angry. The security of Dyad in general and Leda in particular is a responsibility of mine and I cannot dismiss this behavior as something charming or adorable. When Leda clones are being stalked it is the height of irresponsibility for Cosima to meet strangers in a bar whom she only knows via an Internet profile.
And yet—is that why I am so angry? Is that why my heart pounds in my chest when I see her sitting at a bar with a blonde wearing a sun hat? Is it my desire for security and the safety of those under my supervision? Ou suis-je jaloux? Am I upset that Cosima is enjoying the company of a beautiful woman, or that the beautiful woman whose company she is enjoying is not me?
—Shay Davydov - former military, possible Dyad informant? Investigate further
DYAD INSTITUTE
Bowles, Charlotte
PLGI #400a01
PERSONNEL FILE
DOB: 12-02-2005
HEIGHT: 4’8”
WEIGHT: 75 lbs.
SEE ALSO: DuncanE, DuncanS, BowlesM, DuncanR.
After the Helsinki incident (see Helsinki XXX case # REDACTED, ChevalierF), Topside felt the pressure to attempt to re-create the Leda genetic identicals, in the hope that a second generation would be viable.
At that, the project was something less than a success. Without access to the genetic original, whose identity was lost in the fire that reportedly claimed the life of Ethan Duncan, the process proved diffi cult to replicate.
More than four hundred genetic identicals were bred between 2005 and 2006, with only a dozen surviving past infancy, and only one surviving past the age of two.
That one survivor was formally adopted by Marion Bowles of Topside and given the name Charlotte. While Charlotte did survive, her life has been difficult, as she suffers from multiple genetic defects that leave her with stunted legs, a limited diet, and poor stamina.
To her credit, she has overcome most of these difficulties, and she remains a bright child. She has been homeschooled by Bowles and several privately hired tutors. After Bowles’s death, she was sent to an undisclosed location to continue her tutoring in secret.
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To: Topside Board of Directors [e-mail list suppressed]
From: Alberto Castiglione
Subject: Marion
I’m sure you all saw the e-mail I sent to our employees. That is the official story of Marion’s death, one that will not be gainsaid, as the body has already been cremated. Charlotte has been sent to join Susan, as requested.
Marion’s covert activities in support of the Leda clones reveal a streak of misguided altruism in her that was no doubt born of her caring for Charlotte and viewing the Project Leda Genetic Identicals as something other than an experiment, a dangerous way for us to think of these assets. I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you all that the PLGIs are our property, fi rst and foremost. To think of them as anything else will only lead to more difficulties of the type that we have been beset with these last several months.
The next meeting of the Board will take place tomorrow at 3 p.m., following Marion’s memorial service and the spreading of her ashes.
Alberto Castiglione
Chairman of the Board
—PROPERTY OF DYAD INSTITUTE—
COSIMANERD
I’M LOOKING FOR
Women
Ages 23-50
Near me
Who are single
For new friends, long-term dating, short-term dating, short-term fun
DETAILED INFO
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Orientation: Lesbian
Status: Single
Relationship type: Whatever
Height: 5’4”
Body type: Lithe
Diet: Vegetarian
Smoking: Weed
Drinking: Sometimes
Drugs: I’m game
Religion: Science
Sign: Seriously? People still ask that? I mean, it’s Pisces, but seriously???
Education: All for it! I’m working on my PhD.
Offspring: None
Pets: None
Speaks:
English, bits and pieces of French
COSIMANERD
Toronto, ON
Who am I?
I’m a science geek first and foremost. That’s where my heart and soul are, in learning about the world.
The six things I could never do without:
• Conversation
• Weed
• The Internet (seriously, that’s where you can find stuff!)
• Books (that’s where you find all the other stuff)
• A good laboratory
• The Ocean
I spend a lot of time thinking about:
How things work. Genetics are the building blocks of what makes us us. Don’t worry, I promise not to bore you with all that TOO much on our date. Probably.
On a typical Friday night I am . . .
In the lab. That’s when it’s usually empty and I can get stuff done.
Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
I keep going back and forth on this one. Sometimes I believe it with all my heart. Sometimes I don’t believe it even a little bit. Life keeps throwing curveballs, you know?
You should message me if . . .
I don’t know—if you like board games and bio ethics?
MESSAGE ME
DYAD INSTITUTE
Helena
PERSONNEL FILE
-Helena is incredibly unstable.
-She is now welcomed by her sisters, and I fear they have forgotten that she killed several of their fellow Ledas, including Katja, not to mention her and Sarah’s birth mother.
-Must be careful of her psychosis.
DOB: (anecdotal; surrogate left program prior to completion) 03-15-1984
HEIGHT: 5’4”
WEIGHT: 110 lbs.
OCCUPATION: Unknown
Specific family files reference Dyad Surrogate System (DSS); cross-reference with subject ID.
SEE ALSO: SadlerS, ManningS (#322d01/T), Proletheans.
We know precious little about Helena except that she was carried by Amelia Lawrence, the same surrogate who mothered PLGI Sarah Manning (#322d01/T). Manning’s twin, Helena has the condition situs inversus—she is a so-called “mirror twin,” with her visceral organs on the opposite side of her body from their normal positions.
Raised in Europe and western Asia—her native tongue is Ukrainian, so she likely spent many of her formative years in Ukraine. She has significant training as a sniper and as an assassin, and is skilled in the use of firearms, knives, and the bow and arrow.
At some point, Helena was recruited by the Proletheans. She was told that she was the original from which the other PLGIs were cloned and was brainwashed, tortured, and sent to kill the other PLGIs. In many ways, Helena is responsible for the cabal of self-aware clones that formed in Canada, as it was her systematic killing of PLGIs in Europe that led Katja Obinger (#311a55) to reach out to the PLGIs in North America. Obinger observed Helena’s murder of Ania Kaminska (#309a12) and fled. Cf. file on PLGI 311a55. Helena followed Obinger, killing her and almost killing Manning, who was at the time posing as Elizabeth Childs (#317b31). Helena killed Lawrence and Manning shot Helena, who survived what no doubt seemed to Manning like a heart shot thanks to Helena’s situs inversus.
In addition to killing several PLGIs, Helena caused injuries to DuvalO that eventually resulted in his termination; killed several members of an enclave of Proletheans, including the sect’s leader, Henrik Johanssen (who impregnated her in the hope of producing several babies who were made up of genetic material from both himself and a PLGI); murdered four area drug dealers (Guilherme “Pouchy” Pouzihno, Luisa Pouzihno, Lionel Tracey, Joao Alves—see city police file H447931); killed the Project Castor Genetic Identical (PCGI) Rudy; and killed Dyad operative MatthewsF. She is known to have posed as Childs, Manning, and Hendrix at various points, despite her paler complexion, blonder hair, and thick accent.
Helena is the most dangerous of the self-aware PLGIs, and should be terminated on sight if found.
—PROPERTY OF DYAD INSTITUTE—
HELLO MY BOYFRIEND!
I AM WRITING TO TELL YOU THAT I AM MISSING YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO FEEL THE SALTY TASTE OF YOUR LIPS AGAINST MINE WITH YOUR BEARD TICKLING ME. MY BABIES ARE DOING VERY WELL SO FAR.
I AM VERY LUCKY BECAUSE I HAVE MY SESTRAS. EVERY DAY I MUST ATONE FOR WHAT I DID TO THEM AND SO I WILL PROTECT THEM. BECAUSE I KILLED SO MANY I MUST NOW MAKE SURE THAT THE SESTRAS I HAVE LEFT MUST NEVER EVER EVER DIE. I HAVE ALREADY SAVED ALISON AND HER HUSBAND FROM CRIMINALS WHO WOULD HURT THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN.
I LOVE ALISON AND DONNIE’S CHILDREN. I HOPE MY BABIES ARE GOOD CHILDREN LIKE THEM.
IT IS MY HOPE THAT YOUR TRUCK WILL TAKE YOU TO ME SOMETIME SOON SO I CAN TASTE YOUR LIPS AGAIN.
WRITE TO ME SOON JESSE!
- HELENA
PS: GEMMA PUT THE HEARTS ON THE PAPER. SHE SAID HER MOTHER SAID THAT THAT IS HOW YOU WRITE A LOVE LETTER. SINCE SHE AND DONNIE ARE VERY HAPPY SHE MUST KNOW HOW TO WRITE LOVE LETTERS, SO I HAVE LISTENED AND THERE ARE HEARTS.
INCIDENT REPORT
OFFICER REPORTING: Dominick LaManna
DATE AND TIME: 2/4, 10:35pm
LOCATION: Charlie’s Bar & Grill, Hillside Drive
DESCRIBE THE INCIDENT
RCMP received a 911 emergency call to Charlie’s. Caller said that a crazy woman was beating everyone up in the bar. I responded to the call, though I assumed it was a prank call, since the fights that break out in Charlie’s are usually over women, not committed by women.
Upon arrival, I noted that paramedics had already arrived and were treating several bar patrons for contusions, sprains, cuts, and at least three broken bones. Which is fairly normal for a brawl at Charlie’s.
However, multiple witness statements, including that of the bartender and both waitresses, confirm that the injuries were all caused by a single woman. A blond-haired Ukrainian woman with no ID—she called herself Helena—was playing pool with a truck driver named Jesse. According to witnesses, she was being harassed by the other patrons, and she sprained the finger of one of them, which got them to leave her alone for a while. After she and Jesse dominated the pool table for the better part of an hour—and after the sprained-finger victim had had another bourbon or four—the harassment re-commenced.
Helena has no injuries. The other people in the bar have several.
None of her victims pressed charges. Not a real surprise there. I can’t imagine any of these boys, most of whom are truckers and bikers, wish to have it on the record that they got beat up by a skinny Ukrainian girl.
PROLETHIA: A MANIFESTO, BY THE REVEREND DR. ALISTAIR OLDFIELD (1987)
God created us in His own image and made a covenant with us that we would continue to worship Him and do good works in His name.
And for many centuries, we were content with that. Men tilled the fields, women bore the children, and all men did service to our God. And in return, He gave us bounty, crops for the men and children for the women.
Somewhere along the centuries we lost our way.
Somewhere along the centuries we rejected His Word.
Somewhere along the centuries we became arrogant.
We came to believe that we could do God’s work, that we could suborn His greatness for ourselves. Our towns and villages that were as one with the lands and the waters instead became urban blights — cities that are entirely composed of things unnatural.
Factories, manufacturing, construction — all vocations strictly in the bailiwick of God became the purview of arrogant men, who thought they could do better than God’s work.
Now we face a world of chaos.
This century has seen two wars that we have seen fit to modify with the adjective “world,” so grand they were in scope, beyond anything we have ever seen before.
This century has seen development of weapons that could destroy this Earth that God created dozens of times over and these weapons are in the hands not of religious men, not of spiritual men, but of politicians, tha
t most venal of professions.
And this century has seen abominations propagated in the name of what is laughingly referred to as “science,” but is truly alchemy. Alchemists were the worst heretics then and they are the worst now, and like all heretics, they must be stamped out.
We must forget our lives as they have been lo these many centuries as we have choked our world with pollution and industry, and automobiles and airplanes, and other monstrosities that choke us with the very air that we breathe.
The only way to return to the path of righteousness is to travel down the river of oblivion, to purify ourselves of the filth that has superseded God, and return to the simple basics of His Word.
-Proletheans responsible for corrupting Helena and also for impregnating her.
-Currently not a factor after Helena burned down compound, but still need to keep an eye on.
-Gracie and Mark still out there.
DYAD INSTITUTE
OFFICIAL REPORT
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A REPORT ON THE PROLETHEANS
Reliable information on the Proletheans has been difficult to come by, in part because the members of the cult have very little in the way of an online footprint. They are Luddites, refusing to embrace technology past a certain point and preferring to remain agrarian, very much like the Amish. However, the Prolethean desire to avoid technology is more aggressive; they actively fi ght against it.
The Proletheans are divided into sects, with each sect seeming to follow the traditions of the group’s leader—always a man. One, located in North Dakota, embraces strict vegetarianism, a tenet not followed by any other sect. Another group, in Saskatchewan, refuses to use any tools or wear any clothing that is industrially produced. If it couldn’t be made in 1790, they will not touch it.
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