That day Fan Xui had to leave the lab because Qian's work assistant could not keep anything straight. She kept breaking so many beakers until Qian banned her from the lab.
Standing out the door, Fan Xui looked at her stiff posture. "Your eyes... were they always that blue?"
She simply peered deep into his eyes and, without a word, walked past him.
'Weird...' was the only thought retained in his mind that day. ***
Thinking about that day, regret filled his being.
He could not hold back his tears. 'If only I had noticed the signs. If only i had been vigil that fateful accident would not have happened. Qian would have been alive.....'
***Later that day he was working through the documents about rationing. The new wheat variant had been a success that many other surviving settlements wanted a hand on it.
He did send them samples for free, but somehow the samples did not seem to flourish as it did here in G city.
