so i used a quiet minute to think about a story about the new Transporters and wrote just what came to my mind while seeing the pictures unfolding in my mind:

It had become late again, my tired eyes still noticed some lights in the adjoining office area, someone was still there. The text message on my Holo "We already ate, don't bother anymore..." fed my subconscious with feelings of guilt. I bent over the desk, leaned my forehead on my angled palms and closed my eyes. My head pulsated, thoughts raced back and forth on tense synapses. We were now beaten 17 months on this damn project. I still had Edward's gaze as a picture in front of me, I had literally felt the ripping tension in the room, like a laser he had pierced me today, seconds that had felt like minutes.

None of my colleagues had the courage to say anything about the situation, they had been silent for 2 months. He wanted answers and only those he wanted to hear. TDX3205 had started hopefully and had been planned for 8 months. The sound of the champagne glasses, the laughter, the cheerful murmur of voices at the buffet, the impressive announcement of our research director Mike Bell had given way to an oppressive silence. I've been working overtime for weeks, months to find the answers. TDX, Transportaton Drive X had been chosen as one of the most prestigious projects.

Today we had done the 13th test of the drive. We had prepared ourselves for a whole 2 months with a team of 40 people. The simulation values from countless runs, the strict quality checks, the design of the drive everything seemed to fit perfectly... everyone had worked with great concentration and then it happened.

At 8:53 there was a huge explosion that shook the whole research campus. Even window panes in offices 2km away broke and our senior research engineer Beckett was now seriously injured in the hospital, contaminated, struggling for his life. A 3cm metal part had penetrated his body, even though he was in the shelter we thought was safe. But the energy density in the TII's new drive had simply been too high. For still inexplicable reasons this had become unstable in test.

There where before a clinically working test laboratory had been, gaped now a black hole, a crater which had demonstrated the unrestrained force of the new drive all too clearly had. We were on the verge of a breakthrough, after this setback it was time to gather strength and move on, Edward finally providing the answer to the problem so that the new transporter could launch soon as the fastest interplanetary transport ever built!

I was a little clearer now, had my thoughts in order, was looking out of the window into the deep black night that was only held back by the campus's tracked LED lanterns. I had to ask Karen, you again for understanding and some patience, to make it up to me. Something would come to mind...