209 The Condition

" Please follow me. We've got a lot to talk about. "Jay ordered solemly before turning back with no warning.

His strides were so wide that the smallest of them, Tim and the two sisters, were forced to trot a little to keep up with him. Elisabeth, who was supposed to be just a receptionist, also accompanied them out of sheer curiosity.

Jake and the others had a lot of questions to ask, but they all, without exception, chose to remain silent. At first he thought that the bloodline transfer was a regular, if not trivial, procedure at the center. So why all this seriousness?

One glance was enough to realize that deploying one of the best geneticists of the center in person for a bloodline transfer obtained in a first Ordeal made no sense. Unless New Earth currently has very few Aetherists? It was possible if we were talking about the Aether, but there had to be a certain number of geneticists.