Kath ran furiously down the corridor. Doors hissed open before her like magic, but she didn't notice, or care. Whatever was happening downstairs, it would be her who got it in the neck. The Dragon had told her to terminate the project, her project, at exactly the wrong moment. Her bones told her she was teetering on the verge of something great. Every scientific fibre of her being screamed that it was so. The evidence was there, the human brain unlocked once and for all, this time without the usual unpleasant side-effects. Well, most of them. If she could just subdue Omega-Five for a few more days, the Dragon might give her another chance. She had hoped the snippets of data from the original subject - the little boy - would give her the breakthrough she had been searching for all these years.  ...read more »