Lila snatched her phone back.
"Hold on."
Alpha Killian took it again and enlarged the author line.
Eira Crawford
He read it twice before looking through the open office door.
Eira sat at her desk, calmly sorting files as if nothing had happened.
Lila followed his gaze. Then she looked at the paper again.
"No way."
Her surprise quickly turned into excitement.
"Do you think that's our Eira?"
"Where did you get this?" Alpha Killian asked.
"Professor Chase sent it. My chip prototype bombed, so he gave me a reading list."
"Which journal?"
"Nature Computational Science."
Alpha Killian's attention sharpened.
The journal was one of the most respected publications in the field. The paper was not a student project or a minor lab report. Whoever wrote it
