She stepped closer, eyes wide with horror; she was shocked that this was the Professor whom she highly revered and admired! What came over him all of a sudden? He has never been like this. "Who is that in the chamber? That's not one of the volunteers, and you know those volunteers were dead bodies; there were no approvals for this! You kidnapped someone alive?"
He didn't answer, and neither did he flinch; instead, he turned a dial slowly, and the subject's body convulsed, light flickering inside their veins like bioluminescent roots.
"I had to know if the serum would bind properly to living neural tissue," he said, almost reverently. "And it does. So beautifully. So magnificent! This is where we need it!" You could see his face grinning.
