In a dark room illuminated by candles, men dressed in suits congregated at a long, rectangular table. Grim-faced and stern, none of the bearded men looked a day below fifty years old. Their sunken eyes were dark and soulless but focused with great interest on the lone woman in the room.
A youthful auburn-haired woman dressed in a white lab coat twirled about a chained, black coffin. Her sea-green eyes were wide and bright behind her pair of pink round-rimmed glasses as she laughed with herself.
"Gentlemen," she sang as she adjusted her glasses. An elderly man, her assistant, focused a spotlight on her before making drum roll noises with his mouth.
The men seated at the table couldn't hide their curiosity, but neither could they hide their irritation. Regardless, however, they knew better than to offend the second most brilliant scientist in the history of humanity, so they said nothing to speed her presentation along.
