Debut 4

Darren restlessly paced around the room to the point where he unconsciously levitated off the floor. The news in front of them covered the evacuation of New York City up to ten kilometers around the plant as the engineers tried to cool the reactors. For the past few hours, he and Alesia continued to pay close attention to the situation in Brooklyn.

They each passed the time in their ways. While Darren paced on the ground and in the air, Alesia sat with her feet on a table, drawing in a sketchbook. Crumpled paper littered the ground around her. Darren approached her, looking over her shoulders at the doodles on the notepad.

"What is that?" he asked. The drawing was of a large doughnut-shaped object with lines running through it.

"Nuclear fusion," she said.