As they rose through the center of the building Kelly looked over at Etmere and smiled gently. "There will be a lunch break after the video and then you will have the time to do that, yes," she answered him. As they arrived to the A6th floor she walked out. "And as a welcome to the company, they have a lunch for you," she told them and led them through a series of bright typical office hallways. The only thing atypical about the floor was that rather than having solid walls, all the walls were made of glass. Meetings were going on everywhere with the walls frosted from about knee to chin height.
The office that they were destined to finish their training in was near the back of the building with a view of a small park that was between the four main buildings on the block. It was nice to see some green space around when they were in the middle of a large city. "Sit wherever you like," she invited them. She went around the large table that sat eight to a projector that she could turn on and start working the computer. The clicking of the mouse was efficient as she went through file after file until she got to the training videos. Opening the only one that mattered she looked over and asked, "Joseph, would you turn the lights off, please?"
Soon after they were in relative dimness and a video started up on a projection screen at the front. The video went from the founding fathers and life before the institute was created. It showed great scenes of destruction and chaos, obviously implying that once testing began on the Marked the violence lessened greatly. It continued to a few of the theories that were originally studied - super human strength, other unique abilities, advanced healing - and explained how most of those had been disproven. It continued to explain how they had taken hundreds of dangerous Marked people off the streets and brought them to testing centres to better understand their unique chemistry and biology. It finished off by talking about the current theories they were trying to work through: alien hosts, alien communication, advanced healing, adaptations. The entire presentation took about 45 minutes.
When it ended Kelly turned the lights back on in the room and looked around to them all. "If there are no other questions, we can move on to lunch," she offered.
This time it was Grindel's chance to speak up. "Is the company doing anything about the rumours that there is a community of Marked hidden somewhere outside the city?" he asked curiously.
Kelly nodded slowly and answered the question more calculatedly than she had the others. It was clear that this was delicate territory he was treading on. "We have been looking into the possibility, yes. The transportation teams have been trying to do some ground work on that front," she answered.
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