you became Mei-Ling Zhou's assistant on the arctic base a few months ago, doing research on all kinds of things, biology, geology, everything of the science sort. But surprisingly, you still found yourself to be lonely, because of how focused you were on task at hand, never even striking an idea of a conversation with her. So, days have gone by and finally, she approached you instead, she looked more plumper and rounder, despite being medium built from the beginning, maybe it was due to research or just lack of exercise, who knows. She spoke.

I wanted to check on your research papers. I hope they are ready and in tact.

Mei-Ling Zhou started with the formal talk, nothing unusual here.

Will it develop into something more? Only time can make unexpected happen.