Dr. Grant sipped his tea.
He could feel a change in the atmosphere in the room.
Smith breathed deeply, closing his eyes, meditating, and giving the doctor time to digest the problem presented by the ogopogo.
The issue lay in the fact that the Ogopogo was ancient and bitter.
Once king of the sea, he'd fled the deep centuries ago, to lie in wait for the waters to change, as well as the order of power in the ocean.
What concerned the scientists is the fragility of the Ogopogo's mental state.
Would it raise the child as its own, and refuse to let it go? Or would it use the child as a pawn to strike back at the Megaladon?
The only concrete evidence the scientists had of this knowledge had come from Charles himself.
In his youth he had been able to tap into the madness of the sea, and had become engulfed in the mysteries of the ocean. Some had feared that he had been lost in some sort of ocean black hole, never to return.
But he did.
Sort of.
"Something has happened." Smith declared. "I can feel it in the earth... something's changed."
"I can sense it too." chimed Jones.
"An eruption... an unnatural change of the dynamics of the planet... but not huge.
I can feel it through the air.. not the sea.." Smith continued.
"Maybe they got the child to the lake?" the doctor suggested.
"We can only hope it's not so. It would be devastating to lose another child." Commented Ryan.
"Another child?" This was new to the doctor.
"When Charles came from the ocean, he wasn't alone. His wife had gone to find him, and she too had been taken by the madness. She returned from the sea with child. A child not unlike that of the Mano's.
A child that we wanted to study. To learn from, as well as teach." Ryan went on.
"Yes," Smith interjected, "but Charles began to lose his love for her, as he knew more of the child than she. He understood the purpose of the baby, it's prophecy to raze the world we know. So he brought his wife and the baby to a laboratory and safe zone outside the Okanagan. The very same one that the shark child was destined for, so that his genetic make up could be studied, and the catastrophic future he would bring could be averted. But his wife began to lose her mind.
Infatuated with the madness, unable to let go of her child, she made off with it, and returned him to the sea."
"What happened to this woman?"
"We're unsure. We believe she turned to the church, and changed her name to Miriam."
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