Ophelia's Cessation (1)

Remi suppressed the yawn that wanted to escape as he dropped a few drops of attempt number twenty-three into the glass petri dish. He placed the lid on it and then slid it under the microscope lens. He didn't bother to hold his breath since the twenty-two previous samples were all failures.

He adjusted the lens on the microscope and leaned in. He recorded his findings as he watched.

His eyes widened when he realized the reaction was different from the previous experiments. He bolted up so fast from where he was perched on his stool, that the stool fell over, sending out a ringing 'ting' in the otherwise empty room.

He did it.

He finally did it.

"Yes!" He yelled triumphantly, all of his previous exhaustion melting away. "I did it! I finally did it!"

He still needed to test it out on a human subject but he finally found the cure for the liquid Merona that Ophelia had fed to Demian Maxwell, Laxel Rowenberg, and Ebony Lestrow.