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dining room slightly demolished, and then the next, which was a kitchen. The entire back of the building was intact, save for one collapse in a very inconvenient place—right where the occupant had been sitting at the time. A large boulder lay on top of the crushed remnants of a corpse, now nothing but clothes and bones. He had been sitting behind a desk when it happened, and it seemed that fate had chosen the proper time to end his life, for nothing else in the room had been disturbed.
    “Pity,” Phineas said. “It looked like a nice chair.”
    Files, schematics, papers of all sorts were spread out on the desk and on tables around the room. Along the walls, bookcases contained every sort of scientific journal one could imagine, from mechanics to basic science to advanced eugenics.
    Phineas scanned the volumes and pulled out one in particular by Darwin. “Let’s hear it for unnatural selection.” He tossed it in the bin and moved to the schematics, which showed the layout of the cavern, the inner workings of the vats containing the Dolonites, and the master system of the entire operation.
    “Ahem,” said Abigail. “Were we not looking for William?”
    “Yes, but this is everything. Whoever that is lying on the floor over there was the mastermind behind the whole thing…the father of the Dolonites, if you will. I need to see this.”
    “Then, if it is all the same to you, I will continue the search.”
    “What? Alone? You can’t.”
    “Why not? Think about it. Have they ever attacked and taken a woman?”
    Phineas thought about it. “No, you are right. The only time a woman was attacked was when she tried to save a man, and then she was just tossed aside like a doll.”
    “Then it would stand to reason that I, going alone, would stand a better chance of getting past them than if I were with you, correct? Maybe it will be better if I search alone. Find what you need here and I will come for you when I have found him.”
    “Very well. It is against my better judgment, but I think you may be right. Just be careful.”
    “I will.” Abigail looked back at Phineas, who was already sorting through the treasure trove of information like a whirlwind. A man obsessed, but not with her, unfortunately. Maybe when this was all over she would have him to herself but, somehow, she knew that he would always choose concrete science over ethereal love. It was just his way…something that he could show on a schematic and stand firm behind.
    Phineas watched Abigail out of the corner of his eye as she left. Part of him wanted to go with her, to find his friend and get the hell out of this nightmare, but part of him needed to stay and find the answers that he had longed to find since that fateful day. When this was over, he thought, maybe then it would be a good time to move forward in his life…but not now. Now he needed to be focused, not just for himself, but for everyone, every child, who saw a loved one dragged off in the middle of the night, shattering their lives forever.
    Opening the center drawer of the desk, Phineas pulled out a yellowed envelope with an odd seal on it. He opened it and pulled out a letter dated from 1854.
    The letterhead stated: From the Desk of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

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    Abraham Lincoln: the last man to be elected President of the United States…and the first to be declared Emperor Elect of the United States. Said to have gone mad after his wife was assassinated while at the theatre, he lobbied that threats from within were as grave as the threats from without. With the rising tensions between the superpowers, and proof of espionage and sabotage of technological advances, Lincoln took the idea from Napoleon Bonaparte that the nation needed a stable long-lasting leadership and, with Congress’ support, created the American Empire.
    Already stretching through Mexico after the Mexican-American War, and later through parts of Canada, the Empire kept its policy of not