Mai Dong held her hand to the glass as she focused her gaze on the incubator. The clear, black eyes reflected a tiny patch of faint green.
A tomato seed had finally sprouted.
It was unknown when this young life had peeked its head out while inside the incubator. It had silently torn through the tough testa, and the sprout was a few millimeters tall. Two light-green leaves and a white rhizome were quivering slightly in the wind produced by the ventilation system. The look in the girl's eyes became enlivened.
Mai Dong had discovered this young life while doing her routine inspections of the experiment module. Then, she watched it for a very long period of time, completely mesmerized.
