Prologue"Relax, it won't hurt a bit," Erin said.
Although he still looked uncertain, the young guy who’d taken a seat in the chair beside her did hold out his arm.
"I just don't like needles."
"I totally understand. But it's all for a good cause, right?" Erin asked.
Small talk didn’t normally come easily to her, but right now was an exception. After weeks of drudgery, she was in her element.
This blood donation drive was the single best thing that had happened during her entire time at the lab. Finally, she was allowed to do a whole lot more than data entry and other dumb stuff that probably should have been outsourced to robots by now.
Erin scanned the clinic which was normally only accessible by those people participating in one of the various medical trials the university sponsore
