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A “I didn’t ask you to look into et you to invest —”

“Of course you didn’t I decided that all on my own”

“I’ to read between the lines here and assuh to continue even a minor part of my research”

Jaslene reached over and patted her hand “Not by yourself Not even if you liquidate every single thing you own You kno expensive your work is”

A “I know I hoped … h …”

“You’ve got h,” Jaslene said “I think with both our resources we should be able to maintain the field trials for a little while, hopefully until this thing with Frederik blows over”

But this thing with Frederikto do to better the world, before I called you today with my troubles?”

Jaslene stirred her coffee “It doesn’t matter It can wait”

“Tell me”

“I was bouncing around a few different ideas It doesn’t matter”

“Oh, Jaslene, you should go with your original plans, whatever they are,” Amara said

“I will, soet your funding back”

“But not if you spend all your savings onThere won’t be financial returns for years, if ever I won’t hear of you putting everything you’ve got into a potential sinkhole like my research Period End of conversation”

“This is stupid Sinkhole? Really? Since when is feeding the world a sinkhole? I want to make a difference Who cares if I do it with ardless”

“I care I can’t wait to see what you do with your ideas, Jaslene I know you’re going to kill it, because you don’t kno to do anything but succeed”