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He nodded a bit. “That sounds fine, now I will let you get back to your research.” He turned to the books and she went back to her paper.

She ended up not finding any answers so just wrote it up as it was ending that given the evidence she had found it wasn’t possible to truly say that there was a cure for HIV for all that is the common belief. There just wasn’t enough evidence to know why the virus had disappeared, for there was no record of a change that caused it. It was an unsatisfactory end, but it was what the evidence led her to. Just why hadn’t it been seen? It was odd that there was nothing out there about it. It could be no one was looking at it, but they had at other cured diseases to see if it could be done better with new treatments, or if there was something that could be used in place of the magic where it had been used. Perhaps all such papers on HIV were classified out of fear that the gaps would cause a panic. Yet that made no sense, it would be better to do as they had with other items and admit that some records on it had been lost. This way it looked like a cover up.  It doesn’t make sense no matter how she looked at it. There was no reason it hadn’t been seen and no point to hide it if it had been. Still it might be best to check before she turned in the paper. Yet if it was classified why would they leave the evidence out there?  Time to set it aside and look at something different for a bit, see if that helps before I log into the classified files. Now where did I put that? It took a bit of shuffling but she soon had the magazine she wanted and the hand out on the rage fever. This could be the reason it is not seen and might just be why they don’t have as many mages as expected. If they are not stabilizing the gene they would be still seeing the problems that we had the first years. Though there is no reason that it would affect more girls than boys that I can see. I wonder if there is something else going on with the boys? Well either way, I am going to suggest he look up this article. It might just be another item for the trade talks. There will be frowning about it, but where there is a clear danger posed by it, that should outweigh the concern over more mages. Or it might be nothing at all, still it is worth asking him if he has seen.

She moved to her computer and went to her email, and then had to dig her syllabus out to find his address. She looked over at her Uncle and saw he was getting a bit upset with an article. “Try the one with the red tag, it rips that one to pieces, which helped, even if he could have used some better sources. At least you haven’t thrown the article yet. I fear I did, that is why I made you more than one copy of it.”  She looked back at her computer and started typing.

Clive reached for the other article and said. “I can see why you would have, I was about ready to. It is awful. So how is your paper coming?”

Yuma said. “I think it is as done as it is going to get, but I want to check some more, but needed a break. I am just going to send this email and call it night. I might have stumped on something else the trade talks might want to get into. We might just be able to help them with a illness that has been hitting their children, but I can’t be too sure as I don’t have the full information.”

Clive smiled a bit. “So you know someone on the trade commission?”

Yuma shook her head. “No but the professes who told me of the illness in England specializes in immunology, so will know if it fits and is placed right to see it gets passed on if it does. It might be better if we offered, but I have no idea who here would know if it fits. As we do not have the illness there are no reason any here would know any more about it than I do.”

He said. “No wonder Vern is so worried about you. You would scare him, as he can’t understand you. He has no curiosity at all. You do, and that is a good thing, just be careful be you jump in. some things are best left unknown.”

Yuma shook her head. “No, I don’t think so. For if they are completely unknown then there will be no counter for them. Some knowledge need to limited, but it still needs to be known, even though it is dangerous. Look at magic, I am sure you will agree that it is a danger to know that it is real and used. Just think of the panic that would happen if we tried to hide from it, tried to pretend it wasn’t real. If we did so it would come to bite us, but as we acknowledge it we are able to develop ways to combat spells without using any of our own. That relives the fear of the danger. It is the same with other lines of study. Some do not need to be devolved, but we need to know what to look for so we can tell if someone is doing so before it is too late.” He looked at her surprised. “And that is another reason Uncle Vern is worried about me. I have no problem saying what I think. I am not going to let another tell me what my view on an issue is, which he feels is the right way for a lady to act. There have been a few arguments over my unseemly behavior.”

Clive nodded. “I can bet there have been. Feel free to say when you disagree with me. It is good to have some checks, but many are not willing to tell me they think I am wrong. I might not agree with you but at least it will be examined.”

Yuma nodded. “No one is right all the time, but if you let that stop you from taking a chance you will never learn anything new. I do my best to check facts before jumping into anything, but there are times I speak before I think.”

Clive laughed. “We all do, now go play and relax a bit so you can sleep. The paper will keep, go play a game. It is good for you, even if you don’t think so.” Yuma laughed, but took the hint and pack up her computer and the books she would need for the study group then went back to her room.

It wasn’t until she was with the study group that she again looked at the paper and her notes. Trying to see if there was possibly some place she hadn’t looked that wasn’t classified, but she couldn’t think of any. Might as well see if the others had any thoughts. It truly didn’t make any sense that it would be classified, but why wasn’t there an article out there that said the same thing? It was just strange, like no one had bothered to look at it after it started disappearing, they didn’t question it, just celebrated. Yet what was there to say it was gone? “I have hit a road block with my HIV paper. There is zero evidence of a cure. There was magic used to enhance a drug for a related illness, but it was not one used to treat the HIV and was never shown to have any effect on it. There is no record of anything being changed with those drugs, or of any new drugs added. The diseases just stopped being found. There is no expiation as to why. What I have makes it look like it went dormant, not that it was cured. That explains why the drugs are kept on hand and the testing is done, but why is there nothing in any journals about it? It looks as though they just stopped researching it when it disappeared. It seems as though it was announced that it was cured and all the researchers just accepted it and stopped, not even doing a single check. I just don’t see how that could be. Things were starting to get rough then, but it was four years before the melt down, there were other drugs developed and a lot of experiments done in those years. There is still funding for HIV researcher so it didn’t vanish with the announcement. Nothing about this makes sense. There is nothing that says the data is classified nor does it read like it is missing.”

Joe said. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t classified they don’t aways say in the books. Have you tried looking at the government data basses?”

Yuma nodded. “Yes, but just from my computer, I will try it on the court house ones when I get back there and will check the classified docs to see if there is something there. However I don’t see why there would be. Yes I know they said that it involved magic, but they didn’t classify the work done on Ebola, and that did involve changing the structure of the virus. It failed in the end, but they did cause changes to the structure, they just didn’t work as was wanted. I don’t see how it could get any more alarming than admitting that some mages managed to rewrite DNA. So if that isn’t classified why would this be?”

Mark blinked. “You will check the classifieds? How? Oh the trials, but won’t they get upset if you are using it that way?” He shook his head a bit. “I will agree it is a puzzle. I have always wondered why they didn’t classify those DNA experiments. I thought they should have been. I don’t see why they haven’t caused panic. It must be that the majority don’t realize that is what they did. It is scary when you get looking into it. So just what would they have done that they wouldn’t even record? Perhaps there is some other answer in the events that were going on at that time? Might be a good history cross over, when you need a project.”

Yuma said. “It is likely going to be a large project, one I am not to sure I want. For the paper I am just going to have to say that I can find no evidence of a cure, and leave it at that. It is not illegal to check and see if something is classified, but it is best to do so at the courthouse or the library where it is recorded as being done from a government computer not a personal one. Just raises few red flags. Now trying to access the documents without clearance is illegal, but seeing if there is such a document is fine. A lot of researchers find times they need to check and see if they have ran into something they need to see if should be passed up the ladder. Where I am staying it the court house it is just a walk down the hall to the library, so I can indulge my curiosity and see if there is a file on HIV in those records. I will ask before doing more than see if there is one. I am not sure I want to know just what is in it.”

Joe nodded a bit, bit looked at her, wondering just what she wasn’t saying. “I can see that. I’m not sure I would either, but it might just be a records gap. I do hope that some of them can be filled in. It is going to be interesting over there. I wonder how much of what is out of reach here won’t be when we are there. Other than the spells, that is. Just how much we will learn that we can’t? I do think that will do fine for your paper, though. It just made me wonder if there will be some things that we shouldn’t talk about.”

Yuma nodded. “There could well be a few things, but that will be included in the travel documents. Should something get said it is a minor offence, where we have no reason to know that it is classified. Truly as long visitor or foreran resident doesn’t go talking about spell craft they are not going to be cited.” They looked at her and she shrugged. “I looked up the codes the other night. Like I said I’m living in the court house, and so it is far too easy to do. Then to you need to remember I know all those guys so I have no problems asking them random questions. After all I have been bugging a lot of them since I started to talk.” The others laughed a bit. “So how are your papers going? Hard to believe how close it is to the end of term.” They nodded bit, knowing she was felling it closing in.

Warne said. “The last year always does seem to fly by. Still it is hard to believe everything is coming due already. We had best get these questions answered so you can run off to the clinic.”

When Yuma got back to the courthouse she checked her door for any notes, then went to the library. Her uncle had left a few more articles for her to read, but had added there was no rush, as it was unlikely they would be needed soon. She shook her head a bit and started on the first one, but didn’t get to far into it before she was getting in her bag for paper and a pen. It was just easier to read them if she had a way to get her thoughts down as she did so. She read two of them then decided it was time for a break and took her computer out frown a bit. She could just go over to the red one, but she should see how it worked on hers, for there would be other times she needed it. Still she felt a bit strange as she opened the program and typed her code it. It felt wrong to, she had never deliberately poked in the fillies. She hadn’t realized that John had left them open the other times. This though was different, it seemed bigger somehow, like she was crossing another bridge that she wasn’t sure she wanted to. Yet knew she had to.  It might not be necessary this time, but there would come time it was so best to do so now, so she would know how then. She took a breath and clicked enter. The screen flashed and there was an orange circle in the tray. Moving her mouse over it, it told her that the blocker was off. clicking on it gave her the option of shutting of the tracer or turning the block back on. She saw no reason to hide what she was looking at this time, but would need to do so for the court cases, if she ended up using her computer for some of the searches.

She opened the bowers and then wondered if there was some certain site she needed to go to. Only one way find out. Try and see what happened. If it didn’t work from a general site then she would go to the government page and see. On John’s it had looked just like the normal home page, so it should work the same way. To test it with a small smile she typed in healers and hit enter. Sure enough it brought up the links that she had found, and a few more. So it worked like she thought. Now to see what she could find, if anything on HIV. It couldn’t go into the paper but would let her know if she needed to change it any. Thirty minutes latter she was left shaking her head as there was nothing there either. Not a minutes of it one way or another, so at least it was safe to level the paper as it was, but that still didn’t make her feel any better. She shut the winder then turned the block back on so she didn’t forget it. She then closed her computer and looked at the red one wondering if she dared. It was tricky looking at anything related to the devil gene, but that was the only thing she could think of. It might be best to wait and see what she could find at Oxford, where there would be less danger.

Clive caused her to jump when he said. “What are you debating now?”

Yuma said. “I didn’t know you had come in. I am tempted to run a search and see if there is a tie somehow between researcher on the Devil gene and HIV. Just search HIV found nothing that related to my question. So in thinking of why that might be that is the only think that makes sense to me. Yet just checking if there is one is likely to cause some alarm to off. It is dang hard to get anything beyond the basics on the gene. I do understand why that is so, but it does feed the fear as well.”

Clive said, as he took his phone out. “It might, but I will text Willer in the watch office and tell him that it is safe, just a file check. There is no harm in seeing if there is something. However you need to wait until you have a degree before you ask to see the fillies. They are not going to want a high school student in them.”

Yuma nodded. “I can understand them not wanting me in them. That is why I was debating just looking to see if there was anything. I wasn’t sure they would understand why I felt I needed to know.” She moved over to the computer, still a bit nervous, but at least she did have permission to look.

Clive nodded. “I can see that and a lot of them wouldn’t but Willer will, he’s the same way. Though he might want to know why you think there could be something.”

Yuma said. “It is the only thing that I can think of as to why details of the cure would not be recorded. If there was some sort of research going on with the two they wouldn’t want it wildly known so it would be easily lost or erased. I won’t know for sure, likely no one can, but it will give a place to start looking when I have the right knowledge to do so, if no one has beaten me to it.” She sat at the computer and after a bit said. “Looks like there are three documents that mention both of them. One that from the size looks like it could very well be details some combined research. So that does lend a bit more weight to the idea, and helps me. It is still scary, but not quite as bad or the same way it was.”

Clive looked at his phone again and said. “You did set of a big alarm, but no one knows why. Willer said if anything it should have just been a small one. No one there has any idea what the fillies are, but know they want it looked into. You are in the clear, but big alarms are supposed to have a summary of why they sounded so they don’t cause a panic. There was nothing with this one, so it is being turned into the red researchers to look at. They will included that it was looked fore do to lack of evidence on the HIV cure, so it might get them to look into it. Another words you have those awake in the office just as puzzled as you are now. They do thank you for warning them and finding a puzzle as they were growing board.” He shook his head. “Well at least they won’t try to reorganize the office again. Last time they did that it took three weeks to find the forms to document a freedom of information claim that couldn’t be approved, six weeks for the one that was approved. It truly is dangerous for them to be board. Your name is tied to the researcher so anything that turns up you are cleared to see will be sent to you. They will label it so you will know how much can be shared. They are just wonder why no one has looked before now. I told them you wanted to know that as well, for you could hardly be the first one given this topic.”

Yuma nodded. “I keep thinking I have to be missing something, but there is nothing there that I can find. It was just bugging me to much that I could find nothing. Now though I can set it aside as something I need more training before digging into. It will still be there, but won’t bug me as much as I have a reasonable answer, for all I can’t yet prove it. Having a plausible answer quiets the questions down.”