The blacked out windows of the train carriage gave it a menacing look at the station. Significantly enhanced by the squad of soldiers standing all around it, holding futuristic looking automatic weapons. Each soldier was a carbon copy of the other - muscled, short buzz cut hair and green berets marking them as special forces.
While they waited, ramrod straight and staring blankly from their posts, a small group of bespectacled science types stood around a long metal container - sprayed a dull white colour.
From the box came a low humming courtesy of the refrigeration unit attached to the box, keeping the contents frozen.
A chill wind blew through the station situated just outside the secret installation south of Fairbanks, Alaska. The science types wrapped their arms around their chests, trying to keep some warmth in their hands.
The special forces squad to a man did not move a muscle.
A door in the carriage slid open with a mechanical hiss and as it completed its slide back inside the skin of the special train carriage, a second glass door was revealed.
Behind this another science type individual stood calmly. She was tall, probably mid to late forties, and wearing a lab coat with goggles pulled down around her neck.
She reached out and touched the wall next to her, and the glass door also slid back into the interior of the train carriage.
Without the reflecting glass, an observer could now see inside to a fully equipped lab.
Without saying a word, she nodded at the closet soldier who barked an order and 4 of his men responded, slipping guns over shoulders and then lifting the white container up and into the carriage. They then vaulted into the space, and completed lifting the container up onto a carrying stand in the middle of the lab.
They immediately turned, jumped down to the ground and resumed their positions around the train.
The door closed on the freezer unit, the lab, and the scientist.
The other group of scientist turned around and moved away whilst the soldiers stood their posts.
Inside, the female scientist moved over to the container.
She pressed on a small button on the top.
A small hiss.
A child’s face.
Serene and beautiful.
Discovered in the permafrost of an Alaskan wilderness, the female child was thought to be approximately 8 or 9 years old when she died. Almost ten thousand years before.
She had not died of natural causes, being murdered by her tribe because she was different
She of the blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and remarkable genetics had shown she was immune to the anthrax like virus which had struck down 58% of the world’s population since it was released from melting permafrost and carried on winds around the globe.
This beautiful child had lived during the same time period as that virus, and she carried antibodies for it.
Hence the security.
And the care.
For this child of the past, was now the future.
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