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This has happened before.
 
No, not the escape of Omega-Five.1 That was a first for the Company. Even as a barely-secure warehouse full of cages, none of the subjects ever went that crazy. I suppose this means little Kathy was getting somewhere. I am monitoring her now, she should wake up soon.
 
Anyway, a popular televisual entertainment show rather over-used the phrase, "this has all happened before, and it will all happen again." Albeit a rather unsatisfactory end to an otherwise deeply relevant drama, the phrase neatly sums up what is ruffling the Dragon's scales today.
 
Storytime:
 
It began during the Second World War. 2
 
During the Blitz it was not just bombs that fell on London.
 
And not all missing children were killed by the bombs.
 
According to the records,3 at around the same time as Dudgeon Senior4 was pioneering early researches into the workings of monkey brains, an unusual spike in recorded deaths of children between the ages of seven and nine coincided with a particularly heavy shelling in one small part of the capital city. Although one church was indeed flattened that night, I can find little else in the area to support this high number of fatalities. Especially fatalities in such a specific demographic.
 
And then in the early 1960's, almost twenty years after the War, when our dear Professor was only a few years old, several interesting events in the same area of London occurred within a few weeks of each other:

1. A young scientist and entrepeneur, Doctor Clive Dudgeon, with the help of unspecified government funding, founded a small laboratory with a simple, but seemingly impossible brief - to sort out this common cold thing once and for all.
2. The laboratory was built close to (and years later, expanded to encompass) the aforementioned church.
3. About twenty children between the ages of seven and nine were reported missing in the months after the lab was opened. Not all from poverty-stricken families, these were children of doctors and philosophers, engineers and mathematicians. Some of whom had already displayed exceptional talents in their early years in school.
4. Doctor Dudgeon published several papers, not all of which were about handkerchiefs. One of these appears to me to be largely plagiarised from a 1948 journal entry by a certain Professor Franklin T. Hagen,5 in which he espoused the potential benefits of exploring the unused potential of the human brain. Specifically: "...recently matured and impressionable grey cells of humans aged seven years... Only at this tender age can the brain be directly manipulated to fundamentally change characteristics of behaviour, including emotional and intellectual responses to the aforementioned stimuli(see note 57, above) by means of carefully directed application of small electrical charges through the implants... (Hagen, F.T., 1946, Motor Control through Cerebral Implant Surgery in Primates: successes, failures and abject lessons, Journal of Modern Science, 62(4)p229)..."
    
   To avoid plagiarising the document ad tedium in my own logs, I will simply note the following unusual essays for future reference:
   • Dudgeon, C.R., 1956. Brain Chemistry: Physical influences and emotional responses. RS Journal of Scientific Wonder, 37(5) pp59-97.
   • Dudgeon, C.R., 1958. The Mathematical Brain: How I taught a monkey calculus. RS Journal of Scientific Wonder, 64(2), pp198-216.
   • Dudgeon, C.R, 1959. From Primates to Humans: Why science will not advance without proper autonomy. Unknown - possibly unpublished.
   • Dudgeon, C.R, 1963: The Cyborg: Not as incredible as you think! Crazy Science, 1(4), pp67-158.
   • Dudgeon, C.R, 1966: Unlocking the other Ninety Percent: What you can do, RS Journal of Scientific Wonder, 128(3), pp122-345.
      
     And there are more, of course. But they generally fall into extremely specialised fields. Not one of them mentions experimenting on human subject, although if anybody had taken Dudgeon seriously, they might have questioned how he managed to communicate so effectively with monkeys.
5. There exist some fourteen separate accounts of mysterious black-clad characters reported indulging in varying degrees of loitering, lurking, and generally up to no good. These accounts are so geographically separated, no one Police force was able to connect the cases, and so the reports remain unread and unresolved.

 
All this clearly indicates that the Dudgeon name, and the phrase "up to no good", may be rather more connected that the people of this country seem to realise.
 
During the 1980's, bursts of runaways from well-to-do families. Also noted, an unusual influx of mentally damaged twenty-somethings into nearby hospitals.
 
No memories. No voices. No next of kin.
 
And again, the black-clad figures. Only now they have a name amongst the poor unsupported families of the victims: The Seekers.
 
And now, while the Dragon extends her talons to Westminster, it is about time for the Seekers to return.
 
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