Note: Blanche is half-right. Philip Pembroke was a bit of a waste, but that changed sometime after this story is set. He eventually left the service of the Frazier estate (they never really needed him anyway; he was more of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: There was no way for Blanche to know at the time, but she was lucky that the fork and the gun she manipulated contained no pure iron. As anyone today knows, iron has a destabilizing effect on phase fields.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The Viroka project was scrapped specifically because the modifications seemed to cause irrationality and lack of self-control. More than any other GenMod project that sought to give animal traits to humans, the Viroka seemed to become the beasts that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The howling of the Virokas here is an affectation. There is no physiological cue for howling built into them, nor do they have the correct vocal configuration for such howling. Also: they certainly would have been communication with radios.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…