Isobel Lau, the principle investigator at BioGENEius, puts Dany in the positive pressure suit herself. She spends what feels like an hour going over everything, as if Dany is going into a real wet lab. Which she isn’t. Finally, when Dany has eyeballed every last square inch of the blue suit, looking for damage or flaws, Isobel nods.
Dany draws in a deep breath. This is it.
She takes one measured step after another, making her way to the rat house. She doesn’t walk so much as plant one foot after another on the ground. Not so bad, not once she gets used to the weight. And a person, in Dany’s experience, can get used to almost anything.
As she makes her way across the lab, Lauren Ko and a couple of other lab coats stop to watch. “Oh my God, she’s so cute,” Ko says in a hush. Lauren’s lip
