The Testimony of Cain: As recorded by Dr. Thomas Ashworth

A man is recovered from the Arctic. He should not be alive.When psychologist Dr. Thomas Ashworth is summoned to a secure research facility in the Netherlands, he expects a difficult patient. What he finds instead is a silent, watchful man with impossible strength, an unnatural capacity to heal, and a mind that seems older than the modern world itself. As trust forms between them over long silences and games of chess, the man begins to speak. First in fragments. Then in dead languages no living