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India Allen |
170.000 years ago homo sapiens made its appearance on earth. During evolution the human brain has evolved with breathtaking steps. Intelligence, buried in the neocortex, literally exploded. The delicate connections between instinct and the brain were not built to withstand the force with which these events happened and the whole complex brain derailed. Suicidal thoughts surfaced. The new homo sapiens has evolved.
He took Naïa away from her village, together with 34 other kids from half a dosen villages on brought them to Germany. He had learned that these kids from the mountains had actually better evolved brains than most people. When the führer found out about this he closed the project and had all the children destroyed. All but five who escaped with the help of Bergstrom. Alma and her sister India and three other kids.
India did not have an easy youth. She was raped when she was 16 by three boys from school. In the following months she brutally killed two of them, making their deaths look like accidents. After that she hunted down the third, crashed his skull and dumped him in a lake. From then on, until she became a young adult, India spent most of her youth in a psychiatric clinic.
India Allen had many unusual skills. Here specialties, survive and kill, drew the attention of the CIA en she was recruited and joined the special forces in Afghanistan. But she did not need any training her killing skills. Apart from a permanent violent anger, she was gifted with extraordinary senses. Sight was extremely developed, but even more so was her sense of smell. She was very able to recognize emotions by people she could not see nor here. Like a wild animal, she was always alert and aggressive.
At one time she became accused if using drugs and she was fired after needle marks showed up in her arm. She then came on the payroll of the Waxon multinational where eventually she became head of security. India Allen was the perfect girl for that job, easily beating any male agent. But the new product of evolution, the mutant if you like, was not after a career. She had her own plan, she was at war, with the minor humans. With us
For the Dutch series Spervuur, © Le Lombard
Artwork taken from volume 1, De onmenselijken (Les inhumains) 2005 and volume 2, De Evolutie (L'évolution) 2006
