We'll Meet Again (Original Book)

|9| Lecture

"I figured out how the time and space travel phenomenon of the Garner Family works."

Nathalie was about to start talking about the most impossible, vague, and unthinkable theory that a Burgess could possibly come up with. But she had figured it out. There must have been around fifteen Burgesses in the room. Some were engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, or anything else in-between, including the elders of the family.

They were the ones that stressed her the most.

She mostly needed engineers and physicists, but everyone seemed interested enough to abandon whatever research they worked on and listen to what she had to say. It was no ordinary chance to listen for the very first time how biological time and space travel worked.

But it wasn't all about biology. Both biological and physical elements were complicated in this process. She couldn't believe it had taken her two whole months to figure this out. Maybe Tedric Garner's charm had been too distracting, but nothing was too distracting for a Burgess unless it involved science.

Nathalie had her lab-coat thrown on top, and her hair was a brown mess that she hadn't tended to in certainly more than twenty-four hours. She had been in the lab all night, running tests and experiments on Tedric's blood and she had written everything down on her lab book like a maniac. Her dark blue eyes were shining in utter excitement despite the evidence of sleeplessness beneath her eyes. She didn't care the least about what everybody would think.

Usually, she would worry so much about having a crowd of judgemental Burgesses waiting for her to present some project. What if they found an error in her calculations, a flaw in her theory, and what if they called her out on it in front of everyone? Every single one of them undoubtedly had their eyes out for anything that she might have calculated wrong. She was the flawed child, after all. She was the black sheep of the family, and she never knew why.

At first, she thought they were discontent with her because she was considered slow compared to her other cousins. She had just finished her first PhD whilst all the others were finishing their second. She used to struggle to read and comprehend things when she was little, and it slowed her down.

She simply wasn't good enough to be one of them.

The Burgesses were greatly competitive with each other. It was all about who was better.

But now she didn't care about that. Everything she had just discovered was exciting enough to remind her that she loved science. She loved science more than anything and nothing could change that, especially not her absurdly competitive and hypocritical family. She loved science more than she was scared of what her family would say to her.

"Quantum Biological Entanglement."

Nathalie caught everybody's attention at the peculiar choice of words. It was what she had decided to call it. There was no better way to describe it. She had drawn what looked like a string wrapped around multiple beads.

"The microbe identified in Tedric Garner's blood is a self-replicating vector to what I initially thought was distinct genetic information. The first trials showed no traces of the five known bases, so, then I speculated that they were variants..."

Nathalie began explaining and presenting every graph and curve and plot that she had devised based on all the data that she had collected. Tedric was peeking through the half-open door of the amphitheatre.

After returning to the Burgess Laboratories Building two days ago, she disappeared in her lab without so much as a word. She had obviously figured something out, and he was there just in time to hear all about it. He hesitated to walk into the amphitheatre. It was full of Burgesses.