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Henry entrusted the dementia medication to Sujay Patel, the twenty-something nephew of Kingo's valet, Karun Patel.
Henry had never actually met the young man in person.
Most of their communication took place through email, with Henry receiving progress reports that way. Occasionally they would have an international phone call, but not often.
The pharmaceutical company introduced by Kingo was a large generic-drug manufacturer based in Mumbai.
While it couldn't compare to major Indian pharmaceutical giants such as Sun Pharma, Cipla, or Dr. Reddy's, all of which enjoyed international recognition, it was still a capable company with substantial resources.
As long as the issue wasn't directly related to the medication itself, Henry left matters entirely in Sujay Patel's hands and avoided interfering with his decisions.
Not only had Henry provided the complete synthesis formula, he had also developed several manufacturing processes and included all of them on the floppy disk.
However, pharmaceutical production, regulatory approval, and commercial distribution weren't things that could be completed in a matter of days.
So Henry could only remain patient and wait for news from India.
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As winter arrived, Katharine Hepburn spent far less time outdoors painting landscapes.
Unless it was for her daily exercise, she generally stayed inside.
At ninety-two years old, the most vigorous activities she could reasonably manage were walking a tiger or strolling through a park.
Anything more intense was out of the question.
For some reason, however, she always seemed happiest when taking Katie out for walks.
Sometimes snow drifted down around them while Henry walked behind her holding an umbrella.
Katie led the way in front.
The sight was about as imposing as one could imagine.
Of course, there were drawbacks.
Unlike ordinary pet owners, Katharine couldn't simply stop and chat with fellow animal lovers.
She couldn't even pet someone else's dog.
Even if Henry deliberately led Katie farther away, other people's pets were usually too terrified to approach.
What could a Kryptonian say?
Perhaps they should first wash the tiger in concentrated hydrochloric acid to remove the tiger scent.
Only then might smaller animals be willing to come close.
Even so, seasoned New Yorkers never quite got used to seeing Katie out on the streets.
Every couple of days, Henry would receive a confirmation call from the NYPD dispatch center asking whether he had been walking his tiger again.
Someone had inevitably called the police.
As for people causing trouble in person, there were virtually none.
With Katie taking point, she didn't quite achieve the effect of making gods and ghosts flee—but she came close.
Even the neighborhood skateboarders and bicycle-riding kids rarely dared approach.
Whenever strangers got too close, Katie would immediately roar and bare her fangs as though she intended to swallow them whole.
Naturally, nobody was actually going to be harmed.
Still, plenty of people had been frightened away.
Katharine would merely scold her with a harmless,
"Bad kitty!"
Katie, of course, wasn't remotely intimidated.
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Today's outing ended earlier than usual.
Katharine suddenly sneezed, prompting Henry to bring her home immediately.
For elderly people, avoiding chills and colds was one of the basic rules of winter exercise.
At the first sign of illness, spending a few days by the fireplace was far preferable to getting genuinely sick and suffering through it.
Sitting on an expensive Persian rug before a roaring fire, Katie lay behind Katharine while the old actress comfortably reclined against the tiger's body.
A Kashmir wool blanket covered her legs, keeping her pleasantly warm.
Katharine Hepburn truly wasn't someone who chased luxury brands or carried handbags worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But the things she owned were never cheap.
Many were items that money alone couldn't buy.
Some forms of exclusivity came from artificially limiting production.
Others came from genuinely scarce materials that simply couldn't be produced in larger quantities.
The first kind merely demonstrated wealth.
The second kind consisted of treasures many rich people never even encountered in their lifetimes.
Living alongside Katharine Hepburn had broadened Henry's horizons somewhat.
Her collection couldn't compare to the Oak Spring Farm of the Mellon family, but for an elderly actress—even one of legendary status—it was still remarkable.
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Taking advantage of the quiet afternoon, Henry logged onto the public forum he had created and began reviewing submissions.
The site was something he'd put together a couple of years earlier.
Originally, he hadn't had any grand ambitions.
The idea was simply to collect scientific papers focused on theoretical fields, organize them by category, and make them easier for internet users to access.
It was essentially another public-service project from the internet's mysterious hidden giant, CK.
Unlike applied sciences, theoretical science generally had fewer direct ties to patents and commercial interests.
As long as proper sources and authors were clearly credited, none of the original writers had ever objected.
Henry had even stated publicly that he would remove any material if the original author requested it.
Most of the papers he uploaded were over twenty years old.
Some dated back as far as the seventeenth century—to Newton's era.
Many original documents couldn't even be found in ordinary libraries anymore.
Following the principle of knowledge sharing, Henry created the forum as a dedicated space for theoretical science.
He also categorized every paper with one of three labels:
Verified, Disproved, or Controversial.
Papers marked Verified hardly needed explanation.
Many had eventually become established scientific laws and principles.
As for Disproved papers, Henry didn't exclude them.
Instead, he uploaded them as well.
In the first reply beneath each paper, he provided counterarguments or explanations showing precisely where the errors lay.
After all, mistakes could still be valuable learning tools.
Perhaps he originally did it simply to add more content to the forum.
The Controversial category contained papers that remained under debate.
For those, Henry summarized major criticisms raised by other scientists in the first reply.
There were often countless objections available, but he selected only the most representative ones rather than dumping everything onto the page.
Another large section of the forum was dedicated to mathematical and scientific conjectures.
Some had been solved.
Others remained unresolved even now.
Whenever a solution or line of reasoning seemed valuable, Henry collected it and posted it there.
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The forum had originally been built while Henry was studying Kree and Skrull technologies.
Its primary purpose had actually been to help him compare the development of Earth, Kree, and Skrull science so he wouldn't accidentally reveal knowledge he shouldn't possess.
Since it was a purely theoretical science forum, the content was difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Henry had never expected it to become particularly successful.
Whenever users posted nonsense or irrelevant comments, he deleted them without hesitation using administrator privileges.
This wasn't a place for casual chatting.
At first, most surviving comments consisted of new approaches or ideas related to solved and unsolved conjectures.
For "new" solutions to already-solved problems, the answer was often something Henry simply hadn't included yet.
When a solution already had a known source, Henry would note where and when it had previously been published.
If no prior source could be found, he would assign it a New Solution tag.
As for responses claiming to solve unsolved conjectures, most contained flaws that could be identified with careful examination.
Whenever the proof wasn't rigorous enough, Henry labeled it Incorrect.
Replies that merely proposed ideas or lines of reasoning were preserved without comment.
In the beginning, some users felt that CK's habit of casually assigning labels such as Correct and Incorrect was arrogant.
Likewise, unrelated nonsense was deleted, academic discussions were retained, and then Henry would proceed to dismantle opposing arguments so thoroughly that nothing remained.
It gave the world a glimpse of just how terrifying an internet debater equipped with a superhuman brain could truly be.
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