A week later, we had everything squared away. Of course, since I had no papers, we had to do search. Which took three days (Hammond had connections). Turned out the Bay didn't exist here. Yeah that oddly worked out still, Lockwood said something bout a Brockton research facility he had...Its almost like I had weird ass luck. Or its a Simurgh plot, but that's going into tin-hat territory.

Currently I was in my new room/lab under the manor working on a extinct cat for Hammond. A proof of concept type thing. The thing went extinct in 1942 do to the Brits being idiots and the kings of various countries keeping them as pets.

Hammond was talking bout making a zoo or safari of several animals that kids never saw cause of over hunting or habitat destruction, which i was all for as I was the only parahuman unless Scion showed up. So it was either be a rogue or a villain, and i didn't want to be a villain anymore.

Being a rogue wouldn't be bad, with no one to hunt me i can actually help people now. Cause lets face facts, 2013 sucked.

I was looking a DNA sample for the markers I needed when knock startled me. "Come in." I called out after my heart settled, you'd think I'd used to surprises after living in the bay.

The man that walked in looked kinda like Bruce Lee's nephew, or Lung the few times I saw his face. "Mr. Hammond told me you needed a intern?" He looked resigned for some reason.

"Yes Mr...?" I prodded for his name.

"Henry Wu, ma'am." Henry said.

"well Henry, if John sent you to me then you can look through my notes for a Barbary strand I may have missed." I said while pointing at a file I made the day before when I asked Hammond for a helper. Am I following E.O.L. #12? Wu might not be a 5 year old, but it still applies I think.

As Wu was looking through my notes, I found the strand I need from my current sample. Picking up what looked like the unholy child of a needle and a eyedropper, I collected the bit I needed for Hammond's cat.

"Ma'am?" Henry asked. "Yes Henry." I didn't stop what i was doing as i put my strand in a marked tube.

"Are these common lions?" Mostly, they all had a special thing in common.

"Yes Henry."

"It looks like you are trying to find something in their ancestry."

"I am."

"May I ask what? It may make things faster"

"I am looking for the Nemean Lion, Mr Wu."

"The Nemean Lion is a myth, Ma'am"

"I am aware of that. But all myths have a grain of truth, they didn't just pop up somewhere. They are not the products of Lies. They happened, pieces may be missing or changed. but never made up."

"Of course." He was looking put out again.

"Okay Mr. Wu, I am going to implant this into a egg destined for a mothering lion that I've got that has the Highest concentration of the Barbary gene. And in 15 weeks We'll see the first Barbary Lion since 1942. Is that acceptable?" I didn't wait for a answer before leaving, it was time for my proof of concept.

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Hammond smiled as he pet the little lion, Taylor had some how made a device to fill in the pieces she was missing, something bout gene markers he would have to look at her report again later. It was quite fascinating.

In her time with them the lass had done some incredible things, even took the little intern and made him a sounding board for some of her ideas. she said he wanted to see if they could make a unicorn or some such.

He thought some mythical creature would be great for the Kenya project. Course now he finally had a reason to hire a game warden, he heard of a Muldoon fellow that he might be able to transfer over from the supply facility.

Right now he was thinking of his daughter's pregnancy. It was her first child with her husband and she was so happy, even if he did't much care for the father. But his first gran baby was just about a month away. He had Taylor look over the medical reports to make sure everything was fine. She did have some experience in the field.

Oh he couldn't for little Alexis to be born.

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Henry Wu was looking over some research for his Unicorn Project. after the Barbary lion had been born, Taylor had run some test and what ever she did had reconstructed 80% of the genome. Making it acceptable to bring the species off the extinct list and on to the endangered one. Then she modded one of the machines to find the lost code to make a purer breed that Hammond now had with him.

Right now she in Kenya working on the facility there to handle the animals Hammond wanted back, but it was slow going. Hopefully she'd be back to help him figure out what caused the single horn in some goats to appear, he was having trouble locating the right code that was compatible with the horse base he wanted to use.

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okay i made 1 and 2 slightly longer. i tried to get a bit a meat into it(i was told it was mostly planning).