Lab Rats

Part three — week three — began with an apple.

The same kind as in the first week: ordinary, green, slightly bruised — Olga bought them at the market in Krasnogorsk, because “supermarket apples smell like cardboard, and cardboard, in case you hadn’t noticed, is an engineering achievement, but not food.”

— Look, — said Wei Lin. — The way you looked then. But now — further.

— How much further?

— All the way to the author.