Chapter 6London, September 1, 1883
Track One
He arrived in 1883 ten years later.
He had followed Katarina’s instructions and tried to change history at one of the earlier junctions, but just as with his various attempts in the Tudor era, he had failed every time. He had worked out each of his deceptions meticulously according to her principles, but they never succeeded. No one could out-scheme Katarina Rasmirovna; so the failures must, he came to realize with familiar self-loathing, be due to his execution rather than to her plans. He tried to distance himself from his emotional response, tried to see his monumental task merely as a puzzle to be solved, but found such detachment increasingly difficult to achieve.
Young Viktor Frankenstein would not be manipulated away from his studies;
