Chapter i^3
“What’s done is done,” she replied for the tenth time, while folding the curtains from his office/lab. She had taken out anything untouched by the fire because it would absorb the smell. Then her face showed legitimate worry and she asked quietly, “Will Demokritos replace the laser?”
Yanni sat down and puffed a few long breaths of air, as if the answer was to be found in the molecules around him. “Nai. Yes, they have to. But it will take forever to get the documents and approval. It will never be in time for the funding review.”
Thalia tucked the corners of the curtains as perfectly as she could. This was something she could control and she calmed herself by doing the work flawlessly. I know the laser is expensive, can’t we get that money from somewhere in the meantime? From
