Meanwhile, aside from the stuff that they usually use in the case, some of Santina's personal collections could also be found sitting at a shelf located at the far end corner of the laboratory.
A whole row of the shelf was specifically devoted to sealed specimen jars that came with different sizes all with sun-dried discolored bits of unpleasantness floating in them.
Some of them were organs which one would probably better off not imagine how it was acquired at all. There was even one hardly recognizable content on one of the jars that Santina had preserved in formaldehyde.
Some remnants of botched deliveries and abortions could also be seen floating in one or two fluid-filled glass jars.
These used to be displayed in her classroom back at the med school where she taught for a living, but as though having some sort of affinity towards these weird, unhinging jars, Santina decided to take it with her and put it in her workstation.
The jars demanded attention and it never failed to get one, no matter how hard one tried to avoid looking at them
Most people might find staying inside the same room with those particular collections of hers a bit unsettling but to Santina, it was her ball of light; source of comfort, and peace.
Depending on Santina's mood that she happened to be feeling at a particular moment, she would often wrap her long fingers around a particular jar and sometimes even propped it up on her chest just so she could stare on its contents properly.
Analyzing every veins and muscle and its membrane for hours to end.
Some said that every genius has their own signature quirk and that seemed to explain Santina's weird and out of the box fascination with those jars.
Going deeper into the room, one could note the faint smell of formaldehyde and other chemicals.
But on that particular night, Mikael could not help but noticed that aside from the familiar scent of preserving chemicals that usually permeated the entire room, the odor of decay that was usually undetectable on normal occasions became relatively stronger and assertive.
Nonetheless, Mikael just decided to turn a blind eye and no longer bothered himself about that oddity.
Or much accurate to say blind nose???
WHATEVER!
Anyways!
So while looking around the room, Mikael also could not help but strained his ears so he could understand what was the alien song that was being played on the loudspeaker all those times.
He briefly listened to the music and after a short while he rolled his eyes and snorted.
"Seriously? BTS???"
He paused to identify the song then he groaned and looked at Santina with an upturned eyebrow.
"Boy with love???"
Santina chuckled upon seeing the reaction on Mikael's' face. The crow's feet, or as to how they called it, appeared from the corner of her eyes. A clear indication that she was a woman who loved to smile often.
"Aye, yes and I must say, there is hope for you yet. You were not that boring as how you seemed to be on the surface. At least you know BTS!"
She replied to humor at the other party.
Mikael, on the other hand, fiddled with the volume control knob until he was satisfied.
Even after working together with Santina for nearly a year now, he still could not get used to the other party's quirk of performing autopsies while listening to very loud music, with lyrics he could bet that Santina mostly did not even understand.
"You're too old for this, Professor."
He commented as he bent over to observe the stack of BTS merchandise that surrounded the stereo component system.
Santina raised her head to looked at Mikael. She was already wearing her surgical mask so all that Mikael could see that time was her eyes and not her reaction.
"There is no such thing as an age when it comes to fangirling and it is a lifetime calling, okay. But since you are not an ARMY yourself, you probably would not understand no matter how hard I try to explain myself. By the way please don't mess with my babies."
When she said babies, she was referring to the items printed with the face of the Bangtan Boys.
"They were the closest thing to sex that either of us would ever get"
She added without even bothering to filter out her words.
Mikael feigned a shock reaction when he heard Santina's vulgar words. He opened his mouth widely as though a fish that had fallen off the shore.
"Reprobate!"
He said with a gasp.
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