A rather slow blink of his dark-lensed eyes was the only movement the tall scientist allowed himself in response to the alacrity with which events had unfolded. But though he managed to keep an outward appearance of serenity and aplomb, in his very soul of souls he was shaking like a leaf.For although he had had past dealings with beings of power, he hadn't really allowed himself to accept the possibility that the magic they had alluded they carried...
was real.
For a long moment he merely stood, gawking at the place where the odd yet extremely dangerous pair had vanished into thin air. At length he managed to reach out a hand which trembled just the slightest, and closed the program he had opened for their inspection.
Turning, he looked at the tiny being who floated in the great, upright vat, blissfully unaware of the events that had just transpired outside the realm of its tiny existence.
Her tiny existence.
He turned to go, moved toward the exit into the hall from this, one of his private augmentation labs, and flipped off the light. The door to the outer hallway whooshed open in response to the room's darkening, and in exiting he couldn't help but pause to cast one final, reflective glance at the work he was leaving for the night.
Something caught his eye in the darkness of the lab. His scientific curiosity piqued, he retraced his steps to the augmentation vat, squinted in the dark, only now seeing the palest of glows which seemed to be emanating from within it.
A soft, beautiful, yet somehow sinister violet glow...
It reflected through the nutrient rich broth in which the fetus floated, tingeing the liquid with the slightest bit of color, reflecting off of the backside of the glassine tube.
A frown of consternation crossed Rhua's features, for this was entirely unexpected. Had those two somehow managed to affect his work with their strange magicks - magicks around which he was still striving to wrap his coolly logical mind - perhaps doing so while distracting him with their back and forth arguments? Was this, one of his greatest achievements, ruined?
He quickly rounded to the back side of the vat, peering more closely, striving to make certain that the pale glow did indeed exist and wasn't just a figment of his imagination, brought on by his understandably unnerved reaction to seeing two beings disappear in the manner in which they had. But as he came round, the little embryo bobbed, and turned toward him, presenting him that upper portion which had been, and which would once again become, it's face.
Centered mid-way between the large, bulbous black nodules which would become its eyes - no, her eyes - a tiny spark of violet was shining fiercely.
The scientist actually let out a brief gasp of shock. This was certainly a surprise to him, for nothing he had done in all his manipulations would have produced a phenotype of this sort. This was a first, and for a scientist of his stature, was therefore both disconcerting...
And exhilarating.
Quickly he moved to the light switch, flipped the lighting back to normal. The glow instantly vanished. Was it due to being washed out, his scientific mind wondered, or something other? Easily determined; slowly he lowered the lighting in the lab. The soft glow remained stubbornly absent until it was gone. Only then did it spring into tiny, fiercely vibrant life.
What could this mean?
Rhua Ki's heart raced, fueled with the excitement of the unknown. He knew he had to study this little embryo; he couldn't let it proceed to its natural origins of which he had only speculated a mere hour earlier. He had to stop it's regression, no matter what this Lord Phalomir had stated. After all, what if this was something wrong?
He couldn't bear to let an error of any magnitude mar his stellar record.
Making note to himself, he turned and exited his lab. Closing the door, he locked it carefully, coding it to only his genetic input.
Then he hurried off, to find food and rest.
And to think.
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