What a break through!
Vega Enterprises: Level 4-- Laboratory
The reading on the computer screen clarified one thing for us.
Enan was a go. The build up of excitement inside of me was so great that I didn't know what to do next. Call the VP of Vega Enterprises? Call Oriah and give her the good news? The options ran a plenty throughout my brain. A conclusion had to be come to, and in a hurry.
Doctor Clauson leaped out of his seat as if there was something hot in his chair. We seemed to have shared the same level of excitement.
"You know what this means, Adrian?" asked Doctor Clauson.
"Everything that we have worked hard for! Everything that we have ever dreamed of doing, this, this right here is the key! Enan has brought us a solution!"
I looked at Doctor Clauson, then the coding on the computer screen with disbelief. Everything was too good to be true. One thing stood out in my mind very sternly.
We have not tested it on a human subject yet
Doctor Clauson's sudden burst of energy subsequently died down along with mines. I believe, in his mind, he had came to the same understanding that i did.
"Adrian" he blurted out in a confused manner. "We need a test subject. A HUMAN test subject for us to know if project Enan will actually work."
I began to respond,
"Do we have anyone on the list?"
"Worthy enough to handle a test of this magnitude, I am not sure of," the confused doctor responded.
I looked deeply into my own mind. Pictures of Oriah, our future wedding day, the process of funding the research for the Enan project throughout the past 4 years. The importance's of each began to balance themselves out unfairly in my mind. And, in my heart. I had to come to a decision that would greatly affect my future, whether beneficial, or, detrimental.
"I will do it."
My heart dropped down deeper then what I thought it could, falling far beyond my feet into an area of darkness. An area I feel is a place where I might have doomed myself to eat, sleep and breath for the rest of my days of living. I guess my feelings proved one thing right.
My love for my accomplishments through work were greater then my love for things that have the gifted ability of returning it.
There is a curse that accompanies what I do. There is no guarantee that I will be joined by anyone in my goal to accomplish greatness. There is no guarantee that what I am about to put myself through will even work the way I hope it will.
There is no guarantee to anything anymore.
I started to remove my lab coat, constantly thinking in my mind about how this will affect my relationship with Oriah. How everything she said about my feelings for her, and for my work, were true. Maybe deep down, all along, I actually did care for my Enan more then I cared for Oriah. I shook my head in disbelief, not allowing myself to consider that statement in my mind to be true. Placing my lab coat on the table nearby, I prepared myself to be strapped down into the eerily placed slab that sat in the middle of the room away from the lights that shined above.
"Are you sure you want to go through with this, Adrian? The side effects-"
I cut him off by putting my hand on his shoulder, and responding,
"I've made my decision. Ready the project, Doctor."
Strapping myself down I thought about all of the positives and negatives, and how the conclusions that were frequenting my mind were leaning greatly to the negatives. I thought about the ifs and buts. The do's and dont's. Properly aligning the coding and the timing with the amount of water pressure int he pipes flowing below the grounds of this structure. Oh how important these things were, and at this point and time, it was too late to go back. Project Enan was a solution. Anything else would have to wait later. They were temporary. This is break through. This is revolutionary.
