CHAPTER 54

CHAPTER 54

NORMAN BRADY

DAVID WAS BEING VERY CRITICAL in a lot of detail about Norman's work, not that it bothered him, but he was getting boring, very boring, and Norman hated that about David, it didn't give him the freedom to do his work the way he should, in In some ways Norman admired him for having admirable principles, but in this world, men of noble principles were easy targets.

Unlike David was Brian, the boy made an admirable evolution and having spent so much time with his father made them almost brothers, but something still bothered Norman, being rejected by his father was a wound that was difficult to heal...

NORMAN WAS IN THE LAB when he received the hologram.

'Your father asked to have it delivered to you on the day he died, Mr Norman.

— Thanks, Iam.

He was waiting for that unique moment, finally his father would hand him the most important project he had worked on throughout his old age, Operation New Dawn.

Norman turned on the device when the image of his father appeared.

— Hello son, it's great to see you well.

— Glad to see you, Dad.

— You probably know why you're seeing this device.

— Probably because of Operation New Dawn.

The Doctor. Burke smiled kindly.

— I always admired your intelligence, son, but something always intrigued me, your admiration for the world that William created, I confess that it always scared me.

— No need to worry about that, I'm a man of science, just like you, of course my relationship with the New World is visible from a technological point of view, this here for me is paradise, everything that happened contributed to that reach an advanced level of humanity, the Homo-Omega.

— And if it was within your power to change everything that happened to humanity, what would your action be?

— Honestly, I don't see why change, what's done is just done, as Aldous Huxley would say.

— What if I told you there was a way to change everything that happened? — That I recovered a time machine that NASA had created to go back in time and change the course of everything?

— I would say it is too much illusion on your part, knowing the good they did, the result of William Johnson's unjustified actions turned out to be correct in the end, we managed to revert humanity to zero status with respect to diseases, there is no crime, wars, unemployment among other things, in short, humanity has managed to be king over itself, finding happiness wherever it goes.

— Unfortunately that's not the answer I'd like to hear, especially from you son, I hope Brian doesn't think that way.

— Why Brian?

— Because, like you, I consider him a son, and I always planned big things, everything I built was for you, unfortunately the project requires someone in their twenties to make the trip, which in my case is impossible, no I had more physique to withstand the temporal body transposition, it's a terrible physical effort, because of my fragile physique, not even on the best of days I would be able to.

— I think better then you project your dreams on it.

— I love you son.

And the image of your father is gone

NORMAN WAS IN HIS OFFICE working when his phone rang:

— Of course, you can let me be there as soon as possible.

Norman hung up the phone and walked past Tat, he'd always imagined himself lying with her, it was really the great example of the evolution that a woman has gone through in a thousand years, perfection in the form of a human being.

— Mr Brady?

— I can't talk to you now, when I get back we can talk.—

She nodded and he left.

Norman passed them all and got on the plane to London.

Karl calling me that all of a sudden is not a good sign, what does he want?