nary approval receipt, I wen

on logs was the second ste

lled with the smell of

the deepest

d opened the cabinet

tly stacked observation logs, and

y one and placed them

rian's and my nam

n years, I had be

ation records, and night observa

turn everything

choed in th

o the door and was

rom the half-open door of th

rk's voice, th

e listed as co-authorship. For this asteroid discovery, her data comparison was crucial. It's one thing t

ped wa

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is when he was thin

re overthi

t, carrying an almost

high a position, she'll lose sight of herself. Be

sigh

s mood seems off this time.

t out a s

wasted. The research world is small. No one wants a thirty-year-old woman who left a core project

outside

ox pressed painfu

, I had handed Adrian my research propos

y read a few pages

rush to work independently. Focus on my project first. I

ht it was strictne

asn't afraid I would fall, he

lways remain the one closest to him, yet

h the door o

no need

rned toward the duty

he box on

nal records and schedules. Please verif

Turner, looked at the enti

th, as if wanting

end, he sai

ed everything and

e contents, I looked at t

all celestial bodies dis

point was the name

was nowhere

o adjusting his trajectory in the dark, for

e the signed

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e was ve

he wasn't thi

folded it neatly and p

nows exactly what he's d

ed toward the end

sharply against t

ep was

ed anyone t

that I had fin

m, the edge of the archive box

en years of ori

e lines of data would tak

en ropes Adrian used

d, I didn

duty researcher and turned to pr