(Excerpt
“So, what do
we know about the year 2101?" she sat down on her stool.
"It was the year all of the world's governments
signed the Apology Admission for World War Three," he shrugged.
"So between the years 2062 when the Third World War
occurred up until 2101 when the Admission was signed, we had chaos and
lawlessness, da?"
"Da," he verified. "The
"Nuclear fall out causing birth defects and
radiation sickness, riots, governments collapsing, the media in disarray,
looting, neighbour fighting neighbour over food and unpolluted natural
resources," she listed off.
"There were no longer functioning government
departments which would have distributed driver's licenses, birth certificates,
marriage certificates, death certificates or passports. So our Mr X could have easily slipped through
the cracks with no-one to identify him."
"Once the US Government reorganized itself and law
enforcement was re-established, the multinational corporation Hodge Endeavor
protected Declan and Bianca Sabre by issuing fake ID's for them." She agreed.
Griggori stood up to stretch his legs again and he slowly
began to pace up and down as he thought aloud.