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- Fontaine Futuristics – Dr. Suchong's Office -
Dr. Suchong watched the girl on the television screen smile. "Phenomenal." He breathed, leaning back from the screen. He'd not scrutinized and evaluated a Big Daddy, Little Sister relationship in such detail before. Maybe because his usual Little Sister subjects where too young to recognize the divergence from the norm of their own existence, or the conditioning they went through, or maybe they disassociated themselves from reality – all that talk of angels. More study would have to be done.
And that one sided conversation the girl carried with Subject Psi, or more precisely, the way she carried such conversation as though it wasn't merely one sided. Subject Psi had not 'said' anything to the girl – at least nothing the microphone on the helmet camera had been able to pick up. He'd never considered that Big Daddies were able to communicate with their charges, at least no more that the whale-like calls. Such a discovery in itself might re-affirm Fontaine's belief in the Protector Programme, and in Suchong himself.
The doctor looked down at the pages of notes scrawled in his spidery handwriting. "Military Application" Had been underscored multiple times. Silent communication between a commander and his subordinates, no enemy listening in on secret operational plans. Or Fontaine might more acutely recognize the possibilities within the business sector, corporate espionage was always a pressing issue in the city under the sea.
He flicked forwards and backwards through the notes he had taken, before his eye was caught by a small comment low on a page. "Future Little Sisters" I hadn't been underlined or circled, as many of his other scribbles were, it just written alone.
He nibbled at the inside of him lip, it would be controversial, but so far Fontaine hadn't shown himself to hold any moral qualms. As Fontaine had said, there seemed to be an infinite number of candidates for the Big Daddy Programme, Persephone's cells were bursting at the seams, Ryan always finding fault with Rapture's residents. But girl's young enough to be appropriate for the Little Sister ranks... well little girls had a tendency to grow to be big girls... He eyed his note again. Maybe as the current Little Sisters aged and became unable to recycle Adam as effectively... Well... Maybe they would still have their uses...
Suchong smiled darkly, he'd hold back his findings from Fontaine, just for now. If the rumors that Fontaine had been seen having talks with that Gillbert Alexander were true, he was not going to just hand over his hard won research compliantly. And maybe Ryan would have the vision to see the benefits of such prolific work.