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again. Nothing but a game.
    Cyrus uncrossed his arms and pointed a gloved finger at him. “I’ve spent the past two years observing you, Michael, and I’ve learned that you’re a remarkable young man. In some ways, you’re even more remarkable than your illustrious great-great-grandfather.” He moved his hand closer, aiming his index finger at the center of Michael’s forehead. “I’m not talking about your mathematical abilities now, all the numbers and equations you can cram into that brain of yours. No, I’m talking about your innocence. Your purity of spirit.”
    Michael wanted to ask for a third time, Where are you taking me? but he was afraid that Tamara would slap him again, maybe harder than before. Or Cyrus would hit him with that big, gloved hand.
    “God gave you a wonderful gift,” Cyrus continued. “Yes, your autism is a gift. You can’t lie or cheat. You can’t be deliberately cruel. Your mind lacks all the evil impulses that make the human race so despicable. In a sinful world, you point the way to our salvation.” He opened his gloved hand, splaying the fingers. They hovered just a few inches above Michael’s eyes. “You’re a herald of the world to come, my child. A world without sin and rot and corruption. The Kingdom of Heaven we will soon bring to earth.”
    “Amen,” Tamara whispered. She lowered her head and stared at the floor.
    To Michael’s relief, Cyrus withdrew his hand and took a step backward. His eyes still glinted, though, within the slit of his head scarf. “The Lord has given us a great task, Michael. After Amil Gupta died, I heard the rumors about the theory he’d uncovered. Through my informants in the FBI and the other American intelligence agencies, I confirmed that it was Einstein’s Einheitliche Feldtheorie . And I saw that the Almighty was giving me a sign. The Lord was telling me to pursue the unified theory because it held the keys to His holy kingdom.” He extended his arms, gesturing at the airplane’s cabin. “Luckily, I have significant resources at my disposal. I hired experts to assemble the bits and pieces of equations that had been picked up by the intelligence agencies.”
    Michael’s stomach jumped. Although he and David Swift had tried to destroy every hard drive and computer disk that had held the formulas of the unified field theory, it was possible that they’d missed some. Amil Gupta had been very careless with the equations.
    “We couldn’t reconstruct the entire theory,” Cyrus said. “But we learned enough to put us on the path to the Redemption. We conceived a plan to carry out the Lord’s will and open the gates of His kingdom. And just a few hours ago, the Almighty gave us another sign. The results from our test prove that we’re on the right course. Now all we need are the missing pieces of the theory, the parts we haven’t been able to reconstruct.” He pointed at Michael’s forehead again, his gloved hand trembling. “I know you have the equations, Michael. Einstein bequeathed the Einheitliche Feldtheorie to his young assistants, and fifty years later they passed it on to you. Once you give it to us, we can take the final step.”
    Tamara raised her head and looked at Michael. She leaned over his gurney and grasped his left hand. “Don’t worry, it’ll be simple. I’ll show you what to do when we get to our camp.”
    Michael tried to pull his hand out of her grasp, but his arm was strapped down too tightly. The cords dug into his wrist as he struggled. “I told you, I won’t help you! You killed Dr. Parsons!”
    Brother Cyrus nodded. “Yes, and there will be more deaths, unfortunately. But in the end we will triumph over death. The Lord has given me His promise, whispering the holy words in my ear. There will be no death in His Kingdom, only eternal life. All of God’s subjects will be resurrected, and we will live forever in His loving embrace.”
    Tamara whispered “amen” again. Then Cyrus stepped sideways,