“Are they alive?” Stratt asked. I glared at her. “I can’t just tell that at a glance. What do you expect to happen here?” “I want you to find out if they’re alive. And if so, find out how they work.” “That’s a tall order.” “Why? Biologists worked out how bacteria works. Just do the same thing they did.” “That took thousands of scientists two centuries to work out!” “Well…do it faster than that.”
