I have been alive for thousands of years… I am the last of my race… there is no-one left but me. It started almost as a dare, an exercise in manipulation if you will… we simply wanted to see if we could do it - we really didn’t mean for it to get so out of hand. Please, you must believe me, we never meant to harm anybody… We were young, all of us very, very smart [they used to call us ‘the Brain Trust’] and, as so many young powerful people are wont to do, we were also a bit