Marr asked her mother, "Could you tell me about my granfather, again? You actually met him." Doctor Aran shrugged and answered, "Aldus Panchetta? His eyes were luminous and probing. You could feel his vast intellect behind his eyes. He was an optimist with a devilish smile and suave way about him. He invented a new branch of gene science with the help of his friends, Gar Moderaan, and Toshi Balak. Yes, THAT Toshi Balak who became the Celestial Father of the Church of the Holy Child." Marr frowned and harrumphed. Aran blinked and got back on topic. "I met Keenan's father, Aldus twenty years ago. He had lost his wife after the two of them had escaped from City 64 ten years before. Shortly after that he had lost his wife and daughter to the Blight. No one knows if he was actually immune to it or not. He was almost two hundred fifty years old when civilization collapsed during the seven days of fire when the Blight destroyed the world as it was known. He survived. I know he was working on a cure for it, but without the resources of civilization, even his vast intellegence was held back from a cure for it." Marr waved a hand to speed it up. Aran looked at her daughter and wnet back to talking. "He was sophisticated and gentile. He was passionate and humane with a pure science background. He was a romantic, though. Ladies loved him for his wit and attentions. When you spoke to him, he made you feel like you were the most important person in the world to him. He was quite the man. He wasn't born an aristocrat, but he was made one before the fall because of his works in genetic engineering genious." Marr looked curious at her mother and asked, "Why did they live so long?" "According to Aldus, they experimented on themselves in college about some ground-breaking theories they had come up with, up on the Rymmer Highlands. they lost their documentation and couldn't replicate their findings. He always gave the impression of more to the story than that. He never really explained, But it's hereditary. Keenan and you will out-live the lot of us. That's life." Aran looked at her sad looking daughter and asked ,"What's wrong?" "I just wish I had known him." Marr looked out the window at the setting sun. Aran Hugged her daughter from behind. Media is Poser 6 I had fun doing the Morph for Aldus in Wings. I'm starting to get practice doing 3d modelling and may soon start doing my own figures for the story. I finally got a figure that looks like how I imagined Dr. Panchetta. Man--it took some work to get M3 to this!