Re: Where a god goes, men can follow(natalie/Tassadar)
The mouse wriggles nervously in her hands when she picks it up, but it doesn't try to bite her. As the rodent touches the sample, it starts squeking loudly and tries to escape. The strange liquid surrounds the mouse and it starts to convulse while squeking louder and louder. Perhaps half a minute later it stops and the sample loses its viscosity, pooling down to reveal a mouse that appears to be perfectly fine and asleep, only a closer look revealing that it isn't breathing.
The doctor shakes his head irritatedly. "That wasn't supposed to happen, but at least the sample behaved correctly after death. I suppose its heart was too weak. Well, a dissection will tell us details. Can you do basic telekinesis? Touching that sample wouldn't be a good idea right now. I'll show you how it's done."
The professor picks the mouse up with a gesture and brings it to him through the air, handily showing Natalie how it's done. He then proceeds to cut open its ribcage and studies it with a magnifying glass. "Ah, yes. Take a look at this." The professor shows Natalie its heart through the magnifying glass. "As you can see, its coronary arteries are damaged. Simple heart failure due to too much stress. Of course there shouldn't be a risk of that happening in humans, since the human heart is much stronger, but nevertheless we need to slow down the formation for testing purposes. Now, normally this would be achieved via cooling to slow the chemical reactions, but in this case that would cause even greater stress to the heart. So we're going to do it by making the conditions suboptimal by changing the acidity. I need another sample."
