Eva stands in front of a group of children, holding her hand out to a collection of pictures and maps that hung on the wall of the museum, they all depict how the world looked like before the big change had taken place, she explains to the children the history concerning it.
“- the people could not so drastically change the land to suit their needs as what had been done in the past, as that is what caused the world to end. Instead it was the people who had to change in order to suit the land’s needs, and man became beasts, growing tail and fang and becoming as primitive as the new land.”
There is laughter from the children when they see the next picture that Eve points out to them, it being a painting of nothing more than a normal person.
“Boy are they ever ugly.”
“They look so sickly, there’s hardly any fur on them at all.”
“Am I glad we don’t look like that, I would cry myself to sleep every night.”
“My mom says that story isn’t real, and that scientists are just saying that we came from humans because they don’t want to believe that we were created by a higher power.”
Eve raises her left hand to her head as she begins scratching behind her furry pointed ear that was now held down against her head, a little embarrassed by the comment. “Now, now children, it’s not that the scientists exist only to deny people of their beliefs, I mean there are countless amounts of compelling and interesting evidence that suggests-”
The ears of each and every one of the children perk up when the high pitched voice of a boy that had wandered from their group calls over to them from another hall of the museum. “Hey guys come look at this! They got real live bugs over here and some of them look awesome!!”
The children all run off in the direction of the other to see the exhibit he was talking about, an elder bear dressed in a smart looking suit that had been standing behind them letting out a heavy sigh as he calls after them. “Students you were not given permission to leave, students!!” He heaves himself after them when none of them show any signs of listen to him.
The female fox watches her audience leave sadly, her tail hung low, back hunched and ears dropping down. “Of course… history of the creation of life as we know it was out done by a collection of bugs… I should have seen this coming…” She trudges off to the staff room. “Last month it was the ‘Puppets of the World’ exhibit that outshone me, and then the month before that it was ‘In and Out, The Adventures of the Digestive System’….”
She forces the door to the staff room open and slams it behind her in anger, startling Fitz who had been attempting to get a free snack from the vending machine, the raccoon grins when he sees her acting as if he hadn’t been doing anything wrong. “The foxy lady is having trouble with today’s visitors again?”
Eve glares over at him not amused by his comment. “How many times do I have to tell you Fitz, the foxy thing is not funny, maybe it might have been cute the first or second time I heard it but by now I am so sick of hearing people say that to me that if I hear it one more time I’m going to attack someone!”
“You know Eve people aren’t going to stop saying it to you when you keep reacting like that. You’re kind of funny to get mad.”
Eve lets out an angry growl as she turns away from him, reaching into her pocket for some change as she approaches the staff room’s vending machine. “I can’t deal with you! It’s bad enough my work here is under appreciated by daddy’s customers. School children could care less about anything I have to tell them!”
Fitz watches her, not really seeing that as much of a surprise. “Oh come on Eve, you’re an expert in what… dead and boring things. Most normal people don’t care about stuff like that, especially kids.”
Eve’s tail bushes out in anger, offended by the comment. “For your information I am an expert in lost civilizations! What the heck is boring about that? It’s what makes up most of this museum! You can’t deny it’s an interesting thing! You spend all your time robbing the graves and homes of plenty of these dead civilizations!”
Fitz nods his head, that information being true enough, “Yeah… well I approach the subject in a much more interesting manner then you by being an exciting treasure hunter! Dodging ancient traps, thwarting cursed mummies, out running giant boulders and even charming the likes of a frisky little wild beauty, all for the sake of securing a priceless historic treasure, or even ancient documents or devices capable of destroying the world as we know it!!” He looks back to Eve with a wide grin. “Obviously when concerning the topic of dead civilizations, it’s not nearly as boring when I’m involved!”
“You’ve never encountered cursed mummies! OR found anything capable of world destruction!”
“Don’t question my exploits Professor Blah-Blah-Snore.”
Eve is about to snap back at him when the phone in the back pocket of her skirt begins to ring, she takes a break from arguing with Fitz and answering it in a sweet voice, as if she hadn’t been snapping at a co-worker at all. “Hello, this is Eve~” She pauses listening to the man on the other end, a tone of shock filling her voice when she responds, she immediately starting to gather her things getting ready to leave. “He said something different…? When…?”
The fox grabs onto her keys before running to the door of the staff room, “I’ll be right there.”
Fitz watches Eve gather her things in a rush, “Where are you going? Don’t you still have that third grade class to deal with?”
She stops for a moment to look back at Fitz, “You’re not doing anything better with your time you can deal with them. I have to go to work right now!”
Fitz watches as she leaves, a perplexed look on his face.
Eve gives her father a quick wave when she passes him not stopping to talk as she runs out of the entrance the museum startling people as she passes them, a look of absolute amazement on her face. “For as long as I’ve been on this project he’s never said anything different… never.”
Five Years Ago
Eve is dressed in a white coat, following a rat who is also dressed in a white coated animal as they make their way down a long hallway. She excited to be starting her new job, only a few days ago she had gotten a phone call from the militaries science department about a job opening. She could hardly believe it, all the schooling and hard work had paid off bigger then she had thought it would.
The rat she followed looks back to her, a bored look on his face as he begins to speak to his new employee. “You’re about to become a part of the world’s most boring and useless three hundred year old project.”
The excitement Eve has dies down a second, looking back to her new boss not understanding the comment. “Most boring? This project is a top secret government military plan that is supposed to prevent the end of the world! How can that be boring? I almost died when I got the call that they wanted me to be a part of it! Me of all people! This is a dream come true!”
The rat in front of her lets out a sigh. “Just wait until you see how we do it… it’s so completely unscientific and unorthodox it’s embarrassing. You’ll start to wonder what all those years of studying you did are for, because in all honesty any bum can do this job.”
Eve doesn’t seem to understand. “I don’t get it… I mean there are a lot of projects like this going on, it’s almost impossible to avoid them in the scientific field. Right now we live closer than ever to the way our ancestors did before they ended up causing the end of the world, so there’s a staggering amount of people looking to prevent that same mistake from happening again. We’re saving the world as we know it!”
Her new boss opens the door to a room for her, Eva walks inside, looking around her, it’s a plain room with only a table and some chairs set in front of a single sided window, Eva walks over to the window and looking through it, two people on the other side sitting at a small table across from one another.
One of the figures was a scientist like her, the other was a black wolf dressed in the clothes that a test subject would wear, the emblem of the government military on a patch on his shoulder.
Eve seems confused, this looks more like an interrogation than something that held any scientific merit. “Are we in the right room?”
The rat she had been following holds his hand out to the window in front of them. “That’s the government’s top secret project.”
“I… don’t really get it…”
Her new boss nods his head, obviously having expected a reaction like that from her. “Take a good look at him, based on the knowledge in your expertise tell me what you see.”
Eve looks back at the black wolf that was being referred to. “Well… let’s see… he’s definitely not from a domesticated line of wolves, you can tell by the way he looks, he has a lot of wild features to him that were bred out during the progress of technical advancement, because we no longer needed them, the prominent muzzle, fanged teeth, and it looks like his coat has grown thick to deal with the seasons getting colder. But in concern to his physique he’s very under developed for someone that should be wild.” She looks away from the black wolf and back to her superior. “I would guess that he was born wild, but raised here with the domestics.”
“Right you are Miss. Cadrey. He was born to one of the many tribes that live outside the cities, but he has lived here inside of this building his entire life.”
Eve doesn’t catch onto the importance of this. “Well… that’s not completely unheard of… there are dozens of wolf tribes native to this area, so you do get the occasional cross or even full bloods that choose to become domesticated and live as any other normal person. So what’s so special about this one?”
“I told you this project was over three hundred years old by now didn’t I?” He lifts his hand pointing a finger to the black wolf. “Well, that is subject 1502, and he is the project.”
Eve doesn’t have time to catch her breath. “He’s over three hundred years old!? That’s impossible! He doesn’t look a day over twenty!” She tries to make sense of this information. “If he really is over three hundred years old like you say, then why aren’t there studies being done on how he’s able to survive for so long while looking so young? People would pay millions for this knowledge! So why exactly… are we relating him to the end of the world…?”
Her superior lets out a tired sigh. “Because of some old baseless belief the funders of this project have. “Those who are born with eyes of white are ones with the gift to see the future.”
Eve nods her head, having heard that saying before plenty of times. “It’s a common belief shared between all wild tribes worldwide despite their differing customs and religions.” She looks back to the black wolf while her superior asks the man inside to have him make the wolf look in the direction of the one sided mirror, the black wolf turns his head, staring in the direction when he is told. Eve stares at him, having missed this because he had before been staring down at the table he sat at. “White eyes…”
Her superior slowly nods his head. “You’ve probably guessed it by now. The reason he’s kept here is because he’ll supposedly see ‘how the world will end’ and then when he tells us how we will tell the higher ups and they will take the appropriate measures to make sure that it’s prevented.”
Eve slowly turns back to him. “That’s… it… that’s all the huge top secret government project is?”
Her superior nods his head yes as he pulls up a chair taking his seat. “Be prepared to face the most boring job you will ever be given. Subject 1502 gives us the exact same answers every day when the question is asked.” He begins to speak to the other scientist who is in the room with the black wolf through a headset he had. “We’re ready, you can go on and begin now.”
The scientist nods his head as he looks back to the black wolf and begins to question him. “How was your sleep last night?”
The black wolf speaks up, answering his question. “Normal.”
“Did you have any strange dreams?”
The black wolf shakes his head. “No, just the same dream as every other night. The dream where I watch my mother die.”
“Do you recall anything other than that? Anything at all?”
The black wolf shakes his head. “No…” He pauses for a moment before speaking up and beginning to question the man in front of him. “Why exactly do you people keep asking me this question? What are you expecting me to see?”
The man closes his file after her finishes writing down his results. “That’s it for today, Mr. Conner will escort you back to your room now.”
The black wolf nods his head as he gets up, opening the door to the room and meeting a grey wolf that stood in wait on the other side for him, the guard smiles in a friendly manner when he sees him. “Done for the day then?” The black wolf with the white eyes nods his head in response, the military soldier beginning to lead him out of the room and down the hall. “Don’t you ever get tired of answering that same question every day? I know I would get tired of being asked it all the time.”
Eve looks back to her superior, she is surprised by the instructions the scientist had given the black wolf. “You keep him confined here?”
Her new boss looks back to her, not intentionally being cruel to the guy. “We’re not the ones that keep him confined.” He points to the military officer that had been waiting outside the room to escort the subject out. “The governments domestic military are the ones that keep him confined. They believe that contact to the outside world will alter his thoughts and may cause day dreams, wants or other ideas of imagination that could interfere with his visions. All we have to do is monitor him and ask him that same question every day, and then hand in our results, nothing more than that.”
Eve stares at him for a moment. “That’s completely ridiculous; there are no scientific bases on this person being able to see the future! We’re wasting our time!”
Her boss nods her head. “The only reason I don’t complain about it is because they pay me well for doing a job that almost anyone could do.”
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