biggest military we can get.”
— — —
All told, sixty new subjects had been added to Monica’s collection.
Unfortunately, not a single one of them had responded to the first treatment
in the way she’d hoped, nor had the man she’d tested earlier that day.
“Worthless! Every one of them. They have all the same markers. Why
isn’t it taking?” she mused aloud, not expecting a response.
“I think I’ve identified the problem,” Jared replied from the adjacent
workstation. He had dark circles under his eyes from working through the
night, but his passion was stronger than ever. Probably trying to make up for
giving away all their secrets, if Monica had to guess.
“What is it?”
“We missed one sequence in our splicing. The nanites are still looking for
one telekinetic marker in order to activate. We need to strip out that
remaining reference, and then it should work.”
There were thousands of lines of genetic code programming within the