Chapter 3
It occurred to me far too late that I could do actual research on what a mrowha cycle entailed. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that Sol had overestimated the time until his cycle started.
Just over a week had gone by since Sol had made his request, and though I’d vowed to myself to spend time with him before we’d be shut up together for days in the most intimate of ways, I hadn’t yet made it happen. The literal meltdown in Lab Four—which deals with harnessing nuclear power more efficiently—had caused quite a disaster, and it had taken all available hands to contain the damage and put it to rights. It was only after we were once again operating normally that I thought to ask Majel to compile any information the AI could find on mrowha.
It had taken longer than I expecte
