It was several months now after the events in Wyoming, what the Homeland Security people were calling the “Little War.” Penny, with assistance from Faye and her… highly persuasive nature, was able to convince all of the powers-that-be to cover up everything. The rest of the world knew nothing about it, with Smith’s “fortress,” supposed to be demolished and cleared. But the Endowment arranged to have the land and castle ceded to the Greek government – not a small thing even if it was government land. The advantage was, that it didn’t necessitate the courts or Congress to be involved. The Greek government then sold it lock, stock, and barrel to the Endowment. After all, their government had a pressing need for hard currency, and the Endowment, with Dr. Penny’s untiring work, was swimming in funds. They needed a better facility than Archimedes, Penny rationalized, and the castle and the land was a steal at a billion dollars.

The reconstruction of the “fortress” was according to Penny’s and Faye’s specifications, and was in alignment with the Endowment’s plans to expand its operations from epigenetics to other areas of medical science.

By then, everyone in the Endowment had accepted Faye a “full match.” But whether she was a god (“I prefer ‘goddess’ actually,” Faye would say), no one could confirm that. Even so, everyone followed Faye’s every little request and found in their hearts an explicable devotion to Faye.

The evidence was incontrovertible. To Penny and everyone at the Endowment, they really did think of Faye as a “goddess,” although Faye herself kept on saying she was just a human, although a different, more improved kind, perhaps. To others who didn’t know about the Kodikos maps and the “Golden Theory,” though, they didn’t connect Faye to a god. All they knew was that Faye was incredibly beautiful.

It was a little bit pointless to have Faye go through the rest of her senior year at Troy, given that she routinely aced her exams and such. So they had given her an “apprenticeship” in the newly-founded International Foundation for Science and Research, located in a facility in the wilds of Wyoming. This was easily done because it was under the management of her teacher and mentor, Dr. Penelope Castellanos. Faye did return to Troy every couple of weeks, and it was always a fun time for Faye and her friends.

Faye also went back home at least once a month, to visit her folks as well as Carla and Michael (Michael had largely recovered from his time with Smith, and he was as good as before, though he will remember his time as Smith’s hostage forever).

Except for Carla and Michael, none of his family and friends understood what had happened, except that there was a shooting. As for Carla and Michael, they had to be told the complete truth. But Carla and Michael took it in stride, as they already knew something was different with Faye. It wasn’t much of a revelation, really.

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