“I—uh—,” Dariya blushed. “No, no, I'm afraid not.”
There was a silent pause before everyone at the table broke out in polite laughter.
“They're at it again,” Sabrina reached over and squeezed Dariya's hand reassuringly.
“Of course,” Dariya smiled back. She was very personable and highly intelligent, and she had little problem getting up to speed at BCC. Jon and Sabrina had not worked in biochemistry for quite some time, and Dariya had a gift for teaching that reacquainted them with all they needed to know about the project. Alternately, they gave her a crash course of BCC's facilities and the preliminary research they had done to get them where they needed to be when Dariya stepped in. It had been a busy week, but it finally got to where Dariya was comfortable in her surrounding and rea
