Twenty one families gather inside the conference room, with Arthur Ashbourne and Rosella Ashbourne seated there.
The presence of the couple made anyone entering through the door subconsciously straighten themselves.
Everyone are trying to be prim and proper infront of the old couple.
They nervously took there assigned seats.
Each of the people present inside the conference room belong to rich and influential families.
Some are involve in military, law, politics, economics, entertainment, agriculture, estate, technology, medicine, education.
Maybe, not as powerful as the five founding family or Ashbourne family.
They still command respect and power.
The sudden summon to the Ashbourne family via formal invitation and handwritten letter made them both nervous and excited.
But no one dare to speak first as there position is not high enough to speak here in the conference room.
Darius “can I know what kind of emergency make Mr. Ashbourne to invite us by personally writting letters to us.”
He took the lead in the conversation making it easy for other families to chim into the conversation.
“Yes, though honoured by this letter. We are also greatly trouble by such invitation”
“We don’t know, what kind of incidents had happened for Mr. Arthur to write himself”
“Right right, does anything had happened”
Arthur look at the people present in the conference room and took a deep breath trying to reveal the truth.
The truth which is going to change the life and world of these people.
While, Arthur was trying to adjust his mindset.
Rosella stood up, speaking in bold and straightforward voice.
Rosella “few month ago, we get to know that aelith is not our biological granddaughter. At first we thought it’s an enemy attack. But after more investigations we get to know that aelith is not the only child that had been swapped with real child but many more.”
Rosella direct attack with the truth made everyone to be taken back.
They had yet to digest the fact aelith is not there child.
All people present in the conference room are smart people.
They are one who had handle and seen many schemes of people.
How can they not see where Rosella is going.
“Impossible, we Richard always do DNA test, whoever the main branch child is born. There’s no chance of swapping incidence.”
“Right, they are children we give birth ourself. How can we not know if they are our children or not”
“I, don’t mean to be disrespectful. But I think your investigation team had made some kind of mistake.”
Multiple people immediately stood up to refute the words.
Some stayed silence as they felt the silence is louder then words.
Arthur wave his hand and many servant enter the room carrying documents.
Those documents were placed infront of the each families to see.
Arthur “you all must be aware of the health campaign we had started. It’s sole purpose is to collect the blood sample of the kids who are born on the same day as Aelith.”
Rustle..
Sound of paper shuffling and rustling can be heard amidst the complete silence inside the conference room.
The more they read, the more they become unwilling to accept such answer.
They want to deny these paper infront of them.
But the stamp of Everhart family symbol made them shut there mouth.
It’s was like Dr. Alistair Everhart had realised the doubt of the people.
Dr. Alistair “I know many are doubtful of the authenticity of the paper infront of you. As the head of the Everhart family I, assure you that we, Everhart family will never do something as disgraceful as forging paper.”
This made many people to pretend to be convinced by his words.
But they remain doubtful as they decided to arrange the test themselves once home.
“So, do I” everyone turn around to see Eleanor entering the room along with victor and there eldest three children.
Eleanor “but the DNA don’t lie, neither do the children infront of us. Tell me how many of you conduct DNA test when they first saw the children.”
Many of them raise there hand.
As they really had done DNA test upon there children birth behind there spouse back.
Eleanor “the result came clean didn’t they” they nodded there head once more.
Eleanor “what if I were to told you there’s someone or somekind of technology capable of altering one memory. Do you think then everything will make much more sense to you all. Then maybe we can explain the memories of mother giving birth”
“….”
This statement make everyone jolt on there spot.
As they try to digest such dangerous techniques or technology.
Darius “what proof do you have” as the head of the military family.
He had been dealing with security and all for years.
His first reaction not to think about any theory but rather ask for evidence or proof, which is understandable.
Victor “to tell you the truth none. We have no proof of altering memories. But we have DNA result which proof that the incident had indeed happened and we don’t remember anything about it.”
Eleanor “the only piece of evidence we have are these small inconsistency in the video footage of the hospital where I gave birth.”
The very first video that played was the outside of the birth camber of Eleanor.
They saw the small milliseconds of door closing.
They also saw the nurse coming out seven minutes later with Aelith.
Then the exist and entrance of the hospital having error.
The shadow with no human figure in sight.
These small piece are enough to solidified the theory of altering the memories.
Victor “we want all of you co-operate with us and provide us with the CCTV footage of the hospital were you give birth. After all, we have already found the biological child of our. But you all have no idea where your biological children are.”
After another hour of explaining everything they had discover in the past few months.
They conclude the meeting, everyone left the room in either daze or not coming term with the reality.