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important research. The men had shaken on it. Of course, in this day and age handshakes meant very little.
    Tomas Verdano was a pacifist. He abhorred violence in all its forms. He’d seen enough to last him a lifetime growing up in the ghettos of the Ukraine. As a big, strapping teen he’d been able to look after himself fairly well, but an incident in the Stadion Vorskla sports stadium when he was 17 turned him off violence for good. He was attacked in the stairwell by a gang of young punks. Defending himself, he accidentally killed a boy by throwing him down the stairs. The police never investigated too deeply - the gangs were a menace and loathed by all.
    But the incident had left a permanent scar on Tomas’ soul. He devoted himself to science, to further the cause of humanity. He graduated with distinction at Yuri Kondratyuk University and immediately began looking for work in the field of advanced biogenics. One of the first to observe that a significant portion of human DNA remained locked and unused, Tomas seemed set for a brilliant career on the world stage.
    That was when he came across that book. Killing a few hours one wintry afternoon in the National Library in Prague, he discovered MONSTERS IN THE DARK: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DARK AGES by Vladimir Prakow. Knowing a little Romanian, he delved deeply into the text, fascinated with the author’s audacious proposition. At first he was throughly entertained. As a kid he’d always loved stories about vampires, werewolves, mummies and other mythical creatures. He knew they couldn’t possibly exist. The idea of magnetic Flux events that caused these monsters to roam the earth was so fantastic his scientific mind automatically rejected it.
    At first.
    But then he considered the failure of historians to adequately explain why the Dark Ages had occurred. Then there was the widespread chaos surrounding the turn of the Roman calendar from O BC to 1 AD.
    Both of these troubling, dynamic periods were exactly 1000 years apart. If Prakow was correct, another Flux period had already begun. What would that mean for modern human civilization?
    Just for kicks, Tomas resolved to test Prakow’s Flux theory and see if there was any evidence of this fantastical event.
    Which lead him to Herr X. Information was scant, but during his research on mythical creatures Tomas came across vague references to a Nazi sect called the Berlin Club. Formed in 1939 and made up of wealthy Nazi sympathizers, the Berlin Club took a special interest in the paranormal, claiming to have located a werewolf colony deep in the heart of a Polish forest.
    When the Nazi regime collapsed at the end of World War II, not much was heard of the Berlin Club for several decades. Rumor had it that the Club survived but was very careful not to make any of its activities public. In 1983 a German doctor was taken into custody for the murder of a woman he insisted was a werewolf. He claimed innocence, saying he was blackmailed by his masters at the Berlin Club. The man was found dead in his jail cell the next day.
    Fascinated with this lead, Tomas traveled to Berlin and researched everything he could on the unfortunate doctor. That was when Herr X took him into custody and questioned him for twelve hours.
    Tomas managed to convince Herr X that he was a man of science flirting with the paranormal, no more. The mysterious German took an interest in Tomas, claiming he always had room in his organization for brilliant minds.
    Herr X was particularly interested in Tomas’s theories on the Flux. The scientist was astounded to discover that not only did Herr X believe in the Flux, but wanted to build a facility devoted exclusively to researching the phenomenon.
    Tomas didn’t know what to think - his mind was a blur of conflicting ideas and emotions. He was a man of science, of empirical evidence, yet here was a man asking him to research paranormal phenomena. Yes, he’d always had an interest in this mythical stuff, but he