06-01-2014, 01:31 PM
It must be the stress.
Verna sits at that stop light with her foot slammed on the brake while she watches a streak of blood turn to ash, her mind playing tricks on her.
Maybe... maybe it's not blood at all. There are certain extremely unstable chemicals that might use the energy of either the light or heat from the sunlight to... well, usually they explode. They're unstable.
Burning away isn't entirely out of the question however. Obviously not.
There's an impatient horn blaring behind her, and she looks up. The light's green. Yes. Right.
So she goes home, and she makes very sure to lock her door behind her (for all the good that would do against someone with a battering ram) and calls her mom in order to relay the terrible events.
Then, she calls Marie. She gives her friend the the information she needs, trying not to scare her. The poor woman has been through enough. But the basics are that the lab was broken into, that Verna can't reach her boss, that she's probably out of a job, and won't be back to work until she can find something new. And, the ones who did that to the lab might be trying to kill Dr. Andrássy's research -- research which she now has copies of, and knows very well. In other words, it might not be safe to bring the kids over.
Verna sits at that stop light with her foot slammed on the brake while she watches a streak of blood turn to ash, her mind playing tricks on her.
Maybe... maybe it's not blood at all. There are certain extremely unstable chemicals that might use the energy of either the light or heat from the sunlight to... well, usually they explode. They're unstable.
Burning away isn't entirely out of the question however. Obviously not.
There's an impatient horn blaring behind her, and she looks up. The light's green. Yes. Right.
So she goes home, and she makes very sure to lock her door behind her (for all the good that would do against someone with a battering ram) and calls her mom in order to relay the terrible events.
Then, she calls Marie. She gives her friend the the information she needs, trying not to scare her. The poor woman has been through enough. But the basics are that the lab was broken into, that Verna can't reach her boss, that she's probably out of a job, and won't be back to work until she can find something new. And, the ones who did that to the lab might be trying to kill Dr. Andrássy's research -- research which she now has copies of, and knows very well. In other words, it might not be safe to bring the kids over.