Five years had passed since Frederick thought he saw a familiar figure watching him in the park. Five years of peace and relative normalcy. Elizabeth was now eleven years old, and Charles was eight. They were both healthy, intelligent children who seemed to thrive in the loving environment that Frederick and Ivy had created for them. The research facility had expanded significantly, and the cure formula had now saved more than ten thousand lives around the world.
Frederick had become something of a public figure, known as the scientist who had sacrificed personal wealth and control in order to ensure that a life-saving cure would be freely available to everyone. He had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine three times, though he had not won. He had refused numerous
