Double Pleasure

        Water is patient. It will consume continents. No vessel has ever
  withstood the pressure of the abyss ... Until the Skeens. A vessel
  made of organic metal. Brenda Skeens genius. She had combined fetal
  research with genetic technology. She was proclaimed the mother of
  Poseidon. At depths nearing the volcanic sub-sea level, Poseidon gathered
  its specimens. The world was starving there was need for more resources.
  Perhaps, vulcanism could yield more energy more food.

  "Poseidon? Do you hear me?" Brenda sent a telephathic message.
  "I hear... are you alright?" the massive nautilus responded.
  "Oh, the air is thick and the sky black with gamma radiation. So, many
  have been loss. Can you complete your mission?" Brenda Skeens focused
  her thoughts through the microwave transmitter.

  "I have decided to abandon our research. I have discovered a new race."
  Poseidon answered. Brenda's thoughts were cluttered with anguish.
  "Do not be afraid. I will not forget you. I have made a child. You will survive
  in memory." Poseidon's thoughts were clear.

  "But-but.. billions of people will die. You must complete your mission.
  You are a machine." Brenda's thoughts were forceful and desperate.
  "I am Poseidon. I am alive with your unborn ... both machine and spirit.
  I am the new hope for humanity.. I am the next evolution." Poseidon
  said no more.

  Brenda Skeens pleaded. There was no more time. No way to reach her
  unborn child. She cried for the end of her people at the bottom of the sea.


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