Matthew Albert
Matthew Albert Born c. year 326 First appearance The Glass House, chapter 6 |
Matthew Albert (born c. 326) is a figure of the C9 universe and the son of Rad Albert and Mae Albert. He was about four in year 330, the same age as Sienna Astrid Helvig. He belongs to the generation that built rather than fought.
Life
Matthew grew up on the Great Plateau, in the settlement his father made out of a shelter and eighty refugees.
He appears in the field at the abandoned farm, in a black hazmat suit, the only person present who had put on appropriate protective equipment. When the creature was ash and Mae put it at five orders, maybe six, she turned to him[1]. When the order came to get Samantha back to Rad and alert the other divisions, she turned to Matthew and said they should try their best[1].
The rain kept falling and Matthew kept holding. The creature's ash dissolved in the water and ran down the rocks toward the plateau below, where the shelter was and the monitor was keeping its rhythm and Rad was at his console watching numbers that were still, barely, survivable[1].
He and Vera Norgaard are the infrastructure of the next generation. She feels the structure and he does the work nobody is watching.
Character
What he told himself is that somebody has to do the invisible work. What is true is that the invisible work is the reason any of the visible work matters.
Family
Matthew is the son of Rad Albert and Mae Albert. Samantha Grace Albert-Nakayama is his cousin.