Willford was taking advantage of plant research to develop a method for creating chimeras.
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A few hours earlier...
Meredith Scully's day started off a little slow. As much as the half-fox had woken up several times for a few minutes, only to go back to sleep, she remained in bed. Her morning was again started with Luke doing his morning workouts. A little embarrassed, she enjoyed watching her beloved train.
Pretending to still be asleep, Meredith was spying on the half-wolf performing his push-ups. Luke's heavy breathing was an incredible melody to the girl, who was beginning to imagine some other possible types of exercise, in this case, those done together.
Watching the sweat dripping down the half-wolf's broad back made her face a little red, however, she concentrated on her task of pretending to be asleep.