08.12.08

Chapter 15

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Chapman was finished with the guard. He walked through the silent guard station. It was a large building, and old Quonset, like giant aluminum half buried lengthwise in the dusty desert. It was hot and bright outside, but cooler here, and dim. The grimy high windows let in shafts of light and the dust made the shafts look like milky bars in the air.

A fly buzzed past Chapman’s ear on its way to the guard’s body. Chapman had notice that before–how fast flies were. Practically as soon as one of Chapman’s victims stopped breathing a fly would appear out of no where. Even in a cold February when no one had seen a fly for months, a fly would appear, a greedy, dirty, black, mindless companion of death.

Chapman had killed before, of course, but never at the Lab. He idly wondered how long he could get away with this. He’d hid the other murders so well, no one had ever suspected. No one except this stupid guard who’d been foolish enough to confront Chapman with his suspicions. It didn’t matter. It was time now, time to leave the Lab and venture into the wide world. Chapman was a millionaire many times over now, and he had secreted away vast sums. Enough to buy him influence, buy him freedom in another country. Everything was set. He was planning first to go to Argentina. Good hunting there. Human prey, of course. But first he had unfinished business. He was going to pay back the people who had made him as a science project. He’d kill the surrogate mother and everything else who was involved in creating him, the Humanzee. And especially, above all, he would kill his human half brother who had shared a womb with him, and who had known freedom all his life.

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