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mentioned that as a result of  cities going bankrupt, police forces were diminished, leading to uncontrolled crime.  That was followed by discussion of the riots taking place in multiple cities and states around the country as well as the international trouble with China and the chaos in Europe. In addition, there had been a tremendous increase in natural disasters that year, causing increased financial strain. The consensus was that the world seemed to be coming apart at the seams.                                                                                                   “More depressing news,” Dorian thought. This was all that seemed to be on the radio, television, and internet anymore. Looking out the window at a red light one could see the desperation people were facing; even in these frigid temperatures there were two to three people at many intersections, their signs in hand, each with their own heart-wrenching story asking for assistance. He felt his spirit ache for them and wondered where the world was headed.                                                                                                   All this brought him back to the reality of the situation: Funding for his research was all but spent. Up to this point he had been able to provide for the majority of  it from the sale of several patents, in addition to the money he had received from winning a Nobel Prize in Medicine. But as a result of the out of control spending and government debt, research money was scarce.               With the pressure he was facing from Dantanian, he would have to put his secret research more in the open in order to find the answers he was looking for.                                                         What made him different? Why was he not getting any older? Why had he never been sick a day in his life? Why was he able to run five times faster than the average male his size, and why was he so much stronger?               “Am I some kind of alien?” he occasionally thought. At a young age he would read comic books in his bedroom and try to see if he had super powers like his heroes did. Would he have X-ray vision like Superman? Or could he control the weather like Thor? Or use the force like Luke? To his dismay, he was unable to perform any of those feats. He could run very fast, but not super fast; he was very strong, but not quite super strong; and he had no other observable abilities -aside from not getting sick, but who wants that power when you’re a child? His mother would often remind him to take it easy when he played sports with other children, so as not to draw attention to himself, or hurt anyone.                             As he got older he became interested in genetics, in an effort to find a logical, scientific explanation for his gifts. His aging didn't really appear as being unusual until he reached about forty five years and it seemed suspicious that he still looked twenty five or so.
                  Up till now he had been able to discover everything that Dantanian had and then some. The blood sample that he had carelessly left in the cooler at Primase was his own, and undoubtedly Dantanian would be back to find the source. Unfortunately, Dorian wasn't sure what he was looking for. He knew that the makeup of his blood was of a similar make up to that of the early humans, with some exceptions. Something else was driving him, though; compelling him to look further. He was close to a discovery. It was a feeling he had, a guiding force; one which would seemingly take him far beyond his understanding to discern a greater mystery.