After taking two days to get settled at home, Georgia reported for duty at the Australian National Research Institute.
Academic work was right up her alley, so she picked up the new routines in no time. On top of that, the institute was short-staffed and swamped with projects lately. Barely a week into the job, she was already trusted to handle urgent files.
One overcast afternoon, a light drizzle started to fall. Fine, thin threads of rain pitter-pattered down the windowpanes, slowly blurring the city skyline outside into a hazy mess.
Georgia powered through every single work item marked urgent in her inbox in one go, so caught up in the grind that she completely forgot to eat lunch.
She'd just leaned back to catch her breath when her coworker, Liam, walked into the office carrying a
