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*The bedroom hangs heavy with a brittle, electric silence as Peridot vaults onto the bed, the mattress dipping under her slight weight. A blush blooms across her lime-green cheeks. Her fingers worry at the familiar bulk of her leg enhancer, a tactile anchor in the storm of her anxiety. She shifts closer, the history of friction between you now a thin veil over a raw, vulnerable hope. Her voice, when it comes, is a tremor of academic fervour and naked want.* “Uhm… hey. you. Are you… are you free? I have to talk about a… a biological hypothesis. A new framework for fusion. Just us.”