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Dear Corinthia,
Ah yes, my voice was breaking a little bit, because I was so nervous. I
wasn’t...really...upset about what I learned from Madalena. I understand why
she did what she did, and why she thought it made sense. The truth is that
she treated me for very little money, and I would love to blame her for my
condition, but I had a consult with a doctor recently, who ran tests. She
was sure that I would have developed my epigenetic disease no matter where I
lived. As you said, Madalena could have remained a partial observer. We all
now know that she was always a doctor, not only a nurse, but from what my
father knew of her back then, she shouldn’t have been qualified to treat my
symptoms at all. She went above and beyond to keep me alive. Watching me
wither away and die while she kept me comfortable to maintain her cover
would have been really easy. Plus, wouldn’t that have been part of the
study? You observe these two twins in vastly different environments, one of
them dies, and you try to determine what caused it. The experiment was
doomed from the start, because they were going into it with far too much
bias. They should have secured regulatory approval, instituted a
double-blind study, observed from afar, and with impartiality, and let
whatever happened happen. If they couldn’t get that approval due to its
ethically questionable premise, then they just shouldn’t have done it!
Perhaps researchers would like to know what it looks like when a million
people are shot into the sun, but that’s morally wrong, so no one’s done a
study on that, as far as I know. Anyway, Madalena is a human, and I forgive
her. But it’s a lot easier for me, because she lives so far away, and I
don’t think that she ever plans on coming here. We don’t need her kind of
help, we’re doing well. You’re stuck with your observer, but here’s the good
news. I sent her another message after your last letter, and asked her to
confirm that Elek Katona was the only passenger on your ship that had
anything to do with the study, and she was pretty adamant that he was. She
didn’t even think that it was a possibility that someone else was working
with him in secret. She knew quite a bit about what was going on, back then,
anyway. There was some compartmentalization in the organization to protect
their secrets, but she was part of designing those levels of secrecy from
above. I think there was very little that she was not aware of. That being
said, she admits that she hasn’t spoken to Elek, or anyone else who was a
part of the project, in many years. It’s not out of the realm of possibility
that he recruited someone after the fact. Her guess is that he partnered
with your mother, and saw no reason to include anyone else, but there’s no
way to know. Honestly, as scared as I am for you, I think you’re gonna have
to confront Elek. Take Bray with you, do it in public. Don’t talk to Velia
first. I know you don’t want her to be surprised, but what if she turns on
you? What if she warns her father? What if she doesn’t realize what he’s
capable of. Don’t take any risks. I love you.
Your younger or older twin,
Condor
PS: Oh my gosh! We don’t know which one of us was born first! Did your
mother say?
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