[Afternoon is a good time: after checking that everything was fine back at the Colloseum in the morning, Marian came back to the lab to work on a few other things... purely theoretical at this point, but as a last resort... so when she hears her name called, she stops scrawling math across the lab's whiteboard and turns her head, pen in hand and once again seeming mildly startled.
But it's just Lance, and that fades quickly. No pleasantries, just a blunt:]
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But it's just Lance, and that fades quickly. No pleasantries, just a blunt:]
What?