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The Ancients of Eden – Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Chapter Sixteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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Yes Marissé had managed to make friends. Marissé had managed to stay innocent. Marissé had managed not to get married, and pregnant, and hidden away by some greedy man wanting to horde her beauty. Marissé had also managed to get a high school degree – and a scholarship to the University of Miami. When she would enter the University as a Freshman, she knew immediately what she would do – and where she would go – and what she would study– and what degree she would have when she left this amazing place of knowledge that she’d now entered.

What she did not know was how to get along with all of the spoiled rotten American jerks that surrounded her now in this brand new University life-experience. But the scholarship included and paid for a dorm room, and she was going to take advantage of it. Even though her mother still lived in the city. And even though she could have found a way to take the public transportation system to and from class, both her and her mother decided the smartest thing for her to do – would be to live in the dorm. No distractions from home – or the old neighborhood – would interfere with her studies. However, neither of them considered what it would be like to find a room-mate. Not just a room-mate, but a room-mate that would be capable of tolerating Marissé. And more importantly, a room-mate that Marissé would NOT kill.

Marissé’s flair for personal temper and her well known abilities to defend herself quickly became the source of legend among the Freshman Coed Dorm. Her room-mates for the first two months of the semester, flowed in and out of her room like a breeze from the Atlantic. It was actually quite humorous. There were two weeks where the number of days in the week equaled the number of room-mates she went through. The Dormitory Monitors didn’t have a clue what was happening. No one who wanted out of the room would say anything – other than they had to leave – and they had to leave now. And that’s all that they would say…

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The Ancients of Eden – Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Chapter Fifteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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The fat-boy-with-braces was sure the adults here were stupid. It was the children who were the ones who felt like they were in charge. The adults who were at the testing facility never felt like they were in control of anything. They never had any idea what the hell was going on around them. Most of them were just baby-sitters with side-arms. They were not teachers or educators – mostly just test monitors. There were no verbal questions or clarifications that would be asked during these tests – by anyone. And the layers of secrecy surrounding the program made sure nobody on the staff talked among themselves. The only consistent factor became the kids. Certain kids stuck around. Most of the others did not. Kids who stuck around got to be known. They kept coming back for more and more tests. And this particular testing facility was one of the few that had The Legend show up at it. And he did it on a pretty regular basis. At least that’s what the fat-boy-with-braces had heard. And that’s all that anybody really did when it came to The Legend – hear things.
The Legend only came in by himself. And rarely did anyone else get to see him. He always tested alone – always. Nobody else was ever even allowed in the room with him. The fat-boy-with-braces had spoken to a girl at lunch on the last testing day a week ago, who said she had seen him after a test session. She said he looked like he’d been at the beach. This caused the small group of kids at the lunch table to gasp quietly while everyone eaves-dropped on the girl’s story. The gasps were because the tests that all of the students had been taking over the months they had been coming here – were very hard tests. Even the kids in this cafeteria, who have all passed the tests, did not fly through them. They took effort, and studying – if you were trying to do well on them.
But not The Legend…
It was only stories – but the stories were amazing. He’d never missed a question. Nobody had ever scored a perfect score on so many exams. Nobody has ever gotten close to his scores. He finishes in half the time. He takes the test in pen. He never checks his answers. And he never talks – to anyone – ever.
The rumors were all true. This is why the CIA does not employ children.

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The Ancients of Eden – Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Chapter Fourteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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