text: [Themes: sci-fi, puzzle]
  
  Eve starts to go dangerously warm and I feel the unbearable heat surrounding her. Father steps a few steps away from Eve and says "Eve, return to normal!"
  
  "I can't!" Eve cries out.
  
  "Sir. The building we are currently in is entirely composed of metal. Should she reach a temperature too high, she will have doomed us all."
  
  > Guide Eve.
  I grab Eve's hands and try to talk her through this. She is scared but together, we manage to overcome this obstacle and she restores her body temperature to normal. Father smiles and asks me to come with him to his office while Teacher helps Eve learn to master her abilities.
  
  > go with father.
  I sit down in front of father's desk and he sits down on it's other side.
  
  "You did a good job back there Adam. We could have died back there."
  
  "Thank you father. I had to save her. She is my sister."
  
  "You think of her as your sister?"
  
  "Yes. I read the term in one of the fictional books you brought with you from the outside world. I figure that's what she must be."
  
  "She's not. You two are the beginning of an entire new race, the Homo Perfectuses. You'll understand what I'm saying soon enough, but both of you are required to have this breed of perfect beings survive."
  
  "I don't understand."
  
  "I know. But you will."
  
  Before I can ask any more questions, Teacher bursts in.
  
  "Sir. Eve is close to the limits of her power, she is entering the fourth stage."
  
  Father immediately stands up and runs with Teacher to the training hall. I follow them, but then I notice the big metallic door, just two yards away. Before I start running towards the training hall, there is a knock on the door. Something from the outside is knocking on the door. I could ignore it and go see what is going on with Eve, but my curiosity has already decided for me.
  
  > open the door.
  I open the door and a man, nearly dehydrated collapses before me. He drops something. It looks like a book.
  
  > grab the book.
  I grab the book which seems to be entitled "The Bible.", I have never heard that title before, but then again, I haven't read that many books from the outside world. I hear footsteps behind me and I hide the book under my jacket, knowing that father wouldn't let me keep it. Father and Teacher approach. Father looks at me and for the first time in my life, he actually looks angry. Father signals Teacher to take the man and they go down to the basement. I don't know what is in the basement, but I know that it is father's personal room. He has made it very clear that it is off bounds to me and Eve. Eve! I have to see if she is okay.
  
  > go to the training hall.
  I enter the training hall and see that Eve isn't there. I turn around and see her standing behind me, laughing.
  
  "Eve? Are you okay? What happened?"
  
  "I was too curious. Father has always warned us about curiosity. I was trying to increase my hearing when I heard a sound from the outside world, a very odd sound, sounded a little like the generator within Teacher. Well, I focused too much on the hearing and as father said, using it too much is dangerous. But I'm alright, lesson learned."
  
  > take a look at the book.
  I go into my room and start reading the bible, telling no one about it because it could get me in trouble. What I read is very strange to me, but it is the first answers about the outside world I have ever received, and so I soak it up like a sponge. I wonder about a lot of things there, like whether there is a connection between me and the Adam in the book, especially since his wife is Eve, they are supposed to be the start of their race and live in a place called Eden. Is that what father meant? Eve is supposed to be my wife? And what is God? And how was he born if he existed when nothing existed? And why is he always called the lord? The lord of what? And why does his name always have capital letters. I understand from the education in literature father has given us that names are only supposed to have the first letter capitalized, not all of them. These were some heavy questions for a ten year old boy, superhuman or not. But I had always loved to have my mind wander.
  
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  I am 15 years old now. I have read the Bible countless times and know it like the back of my hand, but all these thoughts come to my mind. It seems that every answered question spawns two unanswered ones. Is God real? If so, how can he do all those things he did? Is he special like me? Is he a Homo Perfectus too? Am I like him? Is father like him? Father created us and this facility, and he's always talking about making the world brighter. Maybe the Bible is a vision from the future, maybe all those things are things that have yet to occur, after Project Eden has commenced. But Eve wasn't created from my rib? And what about the forbidden fruit, well, she did overuse her powers when father told us not to, she did give in to temptation when she heard that sound. That could be a reference to the snake and the forbidden fruit.
  
  As I brainstorm on the Bible for another full hour, I hear the heavy metallic footsteps of the Teacher approach.
  
  > hide the Bible.
  I immediately place the Bible under my pillow, just as Teacher enters the room.
  
  "Professor Meckard wishes to see you."
  
  "Of course he does." I say and stand up.
  
  > leave the room.
  After getting Eve as well, the Teacher takes us to father's office. We sit down at his desk and he again puts away his files.
  
  "Today I want to focus on something we have never done before. Combat."
  
  "Combat?"
  
  "You want us to fight?"
  
  Me and Eve are equally surprised.
  
  "Yes. Even though the humans will be gone when you inhabit the earth, the planet will still be populated by various different animals, and you must survive them all."
  
  "Why would they try to hurt us?"
  
  "It is a part of life I wish was unnecessary, but sometimes the strong must kill the weak in order to survive. It is the oldest principle of life. Even though you have special abilities, they are useless in combat unless you can use them. Let's go to the training hall and continue this matter."
  
  > go to the training hall.
  When we enter the training hall, father signals Teacher to go into the center of the room. Father then turns towards me and says "Opponents are tricky. They won't give you any warning to their attacks."
  
  > Continue.
  Before I even realize it, Teacher punches me aside and I harshly hit the wall. I see blood running from my forehead. I hear Eve shouting "What do you think you're doing!?!" Behind me.
  
  "He needs to learn the finer points of combat. If Teacher was a savage beast, Adam would be dead by now."
  
  > get back up.
  Father looks at me and says "good, you can continue. Deliver a blow to teacher's chest and your training is complete.
  
  I've never had to fight before, but I figure this is something I have to do.
  
  > Failure.
  I increase my strength and try to punch Teacher, but even with enhanced strength, he easily blocks my hit. He now has my fist in his grasp and no matter how much I struggle, I remain in his clutches.
  
  > Continue.
  With my hand firmly in his grasp, Teacher hits me in the chest and throws me away.
  
  > get back up.
  As I slowly get up, Teacher picks me up and throws me away.
  
  > Reflexive.
  I steadily wait for Teacher to attack and with my enhanced reflexes, I dodge his hits.
  
  > Like a speeding bullet.
  By increasing my speed, I evade his block and punch Teacher in the chest. It does not inflict much damage to him, but I have completed father's goal and hit Teacher in the chest.
  
  > Continue.
  Father asks me to sit down in a nearby corner and he tells Teacher to get back into the center of the room. He then orders Eve to do the same, deliver a hit at Teacher's chest.
  
  > watch the fight.
  With Eve's first hit, she focuses solely on strength and tries to hit Teacher. He however blocks the attack and throws her into the wall.
  
  "Get up. Continue." Father says.
  
  Eve complies and stands up to deliver another hit. She makes the same mistake, relying only on strength and having teacher pummel her.
  
  > tell father to stop the exercise.
  "Father have Teacher stop, he's hurting her!"
  
  "No. She has to be able to take care of herself!"
  
  Eve continues to make failed attempts to hit Teacher and he continues to hit her.
  
  > continue to argue.
  "If she is attacked, I'll protect her!"
  
  "She can't rely on you all the time. No one knows what will happen in the future, what if you die and she won't be able to defend herself and the next generation of Homo Perfectuses? What if you face an opponent you'll have to fight together and your partner can't fight? She needs to learn this!"
  
  > keep arguing.
  "Let her at least rest and continue the exercise later! She's badly injured!"
  
  "Her enemies won't back down, why should Teacher? She needs to learn how harsh the real world is!"
  
  "Making her capable of surviving isn't worth killing her here!"
  
  "Both of you have to learn not to expect everything to be better, just because you want it to be! If that were the case, you wouldn't even exist!"
  
  "Things may not become better because we want to, but if Teacher was an actual enemy, I would have intervened by now!"
  
  Father sighs and signals Teacher to stop the fight. I help Eve get back up.
  
  "Are you okay?"
  
  She doesn't look very pleased with me.
  
  "Teacher, take Eve to the medical room and see if she is okay."
  
  Teacher and Eve leave. Father looks at me, he looks a little angered.
  
  "You should watch your mouth young man. You may be a perfect being, but I'm the one in charge here. I comply only because I know I created you to be protective of her."
  
  With that said, father leaves.
  
  > go to your room.
  I go to my room, but Teacher comes out of it with the Bible in his hand. Seeing me as more trouble than I am worth, he discards me, and worse yet, he discards Eve as well.