Chapter 4: More Immediate
v 1.1 – 2.5.2012
By Nels Wadycki
© 2012 Nels Wadycki
All Rights Reserved
THE VALKYRIE PROJECT 1.4:
MORE IMMEDIATE
The easy part was compartmentalizing failed missions. The hard part was forgetting them. Ana's father had always advised her to fail quickly, learn from your mistakes, and try again.
"The scientist's name is Lukas Huang. Yes, it sounds like an experiment in combining the differing intellects of two distinct but powerful cultures."
Malcolm paused.
"That was a joke."
Aerin laughed. Ana and Marisol just smiled politely.
The images of the children still visited Ana nearly as often as the memories of the man with the bandaged head and broken legs. They would fade in time, only to be replaced by other equally confounding and frustrating pictures.