In the morning, again, Noctis did not eat; she drank a protein shake, swallowed a nutrient tablet, and then set about her work.

Chemicals, glassware, and sterilization equipment seemed to flying across the room.

" Um. Is any of this dangerous?" he asked, hesitant. " Do I need any protective gear?"

" No," she said, looking back over to him like he was stupid. " I just need you to manually feed these photographs into the computer here. The Commodore General set it up with a radial organic 2x-Mx encryption engine so that we could break down the chemical data and search for similar flags in the DASS's organics catalogue..."

It didn't make sense to him that she had both drawn diagrams and photographs, but pushing pictures through a scanner seemed easy enough.

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