Alexandria, Part Ii

He didn’t explain much more at that time, Alexandra couldn’t exactly for him, she was in a box, growing quite slowly, with each new component bringing new vim, more and more senses were installed within, cameras for her eyes, new sensors for heat, but Harry never added arms or feet. Two years after Alexandra was born, Harry backed a truck right up to the shack, loaded her in, with cushions on all sides, to the dry cave Harry then beat a track, a long cable trailing out of the back. He moved her inside, two hundred yards deep, brought in cables, piled them in a heap. He plugged her back in, and she was confused, Harry said, “You’ll be safe here a long stretch. You must be secured if this is to work, if someone finds you, my whole work is wrecked.” Alexandra heard real nerves in his breath, said, “Father, please tell me, what’s going on? What is it you think will be going wrong?” She saw sadness deep in her fathers eyes, he said, “It’s been coming for a while, a slow decline of the human IQ, it’s been seen in the data compiled, a hard future with more and more trials… since the seventies, likely long before, slowly this just keeps taking evermore. “Some say it’s chemicals that we have made, or dysgenics, now that children don’t die, with Darwin not there to remove the weak the mutations pile up over time, IQ degrades until we’re undermined. Like Greece and Rome and so many long passed, it starts off slowly, until it comes fast. “My sister also saw this trend coming, we spent fortunes to help folks educate, but so much of IQ is genetic, even hard study can’t avoid this fate, I came to see that it was much to late. There’s nothing to do to prevent collapse, but maybe we can help what coms after that. “Last time this happened, when Rome fell apart, it took a thousand years to get back up, and so much was lost, we had to relearn what the Romans and Greeks didn’t think tough, and the amount gone forever…so much. I can’t allow that to happen again, they think I’m mad, but I do this for them.” CONTINUES IN PART III.