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chair. It moulded well to the body giving good support. ‘Very nice.’ She slid her chair the length of the track behind her desk.
    ‘It’s great here,’ Balin assured. ‘When I first arrived, I thought, wow… this is such a perfect work environment that there must be a catch. But there isn’t. I’ve been with the project for six years and I still haven’t found anything that would make me want to leave.’
    He did look very comfortable in his grotty overalls and boots.
    ‘Do you like plants?’ Balin queried.
    ‘Oh, yes,’ Taren said passionately. ‘I did a three-year study involving plants.’
    ‘Then this is for you.’ He picked up the tube-tank she’d been admiring and placed it on her desk. ‘A bit of colour.’
    The sweet gesture nearly brought a tear to Taren’s eye. ‘How lovely, thank you. I wish I had something to give you in return.’
    ‘Tell me about your plant study.’
    Taren took a deep breath. ‘It was on morphic fields and biophoton emissions,’ she began. ‘That’s cell—’
    ‘Coordination and communication,’ Balin cut in, letting her know she could cut to the chase.
    ‘I was looking for a low-intensity electromagnetic field that could be orchestrating the growth pattern of the cellular body at a quantum level…weak biophoton emissions that were orchestrating the body growth. My theory is that these light emissions are the selforganising properties of biological systems from molecules to bodies to societies.’
    ‘Advancing the idea that a low quantum frequency, a light-field, might be responsible for getting proteins to cooperate with each other and carry out the instructions of DNA.’ Balin pushed his glasses back up his nose once more.
    ‘Yes.’ Taren smiled. She still couldn’t get used to people not looking at her like she had two heads and spoke a foreign language when she explained her work.
    ‘And you found electrical fields in seedlings which resembled the eventual adult plant,’ Balin concluded.
    ‘Yes, I did.’ Taren was further stunned, until she realised: ‘You’ve read my work?’
    ‘That system,’ he pointed to the tank, ‘is based on much of your research and some of my own.’
    This news was also very touching for Taren; someone was basing their research on her work!
    ‘I have been measuring the different photon emissions of many plants,’ Balin continued, ‘and I have discovered that you were right. The living system must maintain a delicate equilibrium of light. Any excess is rejected, for too much light can inhibit the ability of cells to do their job. Photon emission varies from one living organism to another, depending upon its position on the evolutionary scale. The more complex the organism, the fewer photons being emitted.’
    ‘Meaning…the more evolved the organism the more light being absorbed and maintained by the cells of the body. Very interesting stuff, Balin,’ Taren said, most impressed.
    ‘Your findings on response to positive stimuli on cell growth…’ Balin kept the mutual admiration theme going. ‘…and the high biophoton emissions of healthy food have been invaluable to my work. So you see, you’ve already given me a gift.’
    Taren had never been so elated in all her born days. Her hard work was finally making a difference to someone. ‘I’m honoured that you could put the research to good use.’ Taren’s beeper went off. ‘Oooh, that’s my analysis.’ She stood to excuse herself.
    ‘Drop by Module C some time, and I’ll show you my little oasis in space.’ Balin returned to his side of the room.
    ‘I’ll certainly do that,’ Taren assured him before heading back up to Module F where her quarantine lab was located.

CHAPTER 4
REASONABLE FORCE
    Taren followed the same route to the quarantine lab that she had taken with Lucian earlier; she was sure there was a faster route there from where she had ended up, in the offices, but she would investigate later.
    She stepped out of the lift at the rear of