(this story is a spiritual successor to the original found on the now defunct tf-roleplay.us, by author Clara.)
Once upon a time on a sunny rural farm.
Her friend Keira had visited several times over the last year. They'd known each other since the beginning of high school, and all through college. Amy was intelligent enough, but Keira was downright brilliant. Keira came over this afternoon to chat about her latest project, a research study in growth enzymes. Amy was a little bored by all the talk of nucleotides and protein folding, but Keira meant well, and it sounded like she'd recently hit on a pretty impressive discovery.
Amy paused her grooming to take a sip of soda.