Claudette nods. "I'll get it done."
Claudette chews the edge of one of her fingernails for a few seconds, then stands. "I should get back to the lab. We're pretty busy right now."
As she leaves the room, you reflect for a moment on the change that's come over Claudette in the year or so that you've known her. When you met her in January she seemed measured, controlled, sure of her own ability. Now, she is no less confident, but she seems far more at ease, overall. She bites her fingernails in meetings, or lounges back in her seat. She dresses far more casually than before: today, she came to your office dressed in a T-shirt and yoga pants. Yes, she feels the same strain as everyone else at MetaHuman right now. But it seems that under that strain, under that challenge, she is flourishing.
Slightly cheered, you decide to look over a tablet detailing possible ways to allocate November's budget.
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