Tranquil


Sarah pulled at her hair in frustration; the experiment wasn't working. She didn't understand why. She'd followed the protocols, and it had worked perfectly yesterday on the first try. Six snails subjects and twelve failed attempts later, it appeared the technique wasn't going to happen.

"It's your lucky day guys," She spoke to the aquarium and its inhabitants as she passed, "I have class to teach in an hour, anyway."

At fifteen, if anyone had told dreamy, dramatic Sarah she'd be jabbing electrodes into snail brains and teaching whiny freshmen introductory biology for a living, she wouldn't have believed them.