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[i]Train....replacements..? [/i]Rhiannon couldn't quite wrap her head around what her wife was saying. [color=efd7ad]"No..."[/color], Rhiannon protested. [color=efd7ad]"No. How..."[/color] She gasped at an inner thought and shook her head. [color=efd7ad]"How can you just stand for that? That is [i]our[/i] project. If they want to take it, we fight! That is [i]our[/i] research and [i]our[/i] hard work! Years! God damn it, [i]years[/i], Lisa!"[/color] She shook her head again.

[color=efd7ad]"If you think I will sit back and let them take our invention and ... and ... [i]degrade[/i] us to ... to work on something like a washed-off version of our work, a freaking travel portal, you must have forgotten who you're talking to."[/color]

Take their work... Rhiannon would not let that happen. And she would certainly not live a moment of her life creating something that is only a fraction of what they've done. She would not invent such a machine. No. 

[color=efd7ad]"What do you even mean, they're training people to replace us? We are not replaceable! No one does what we do. No one else [i]knows[/i] what we know. They need us. They can train others to go through the portal, sure, yes. Granted. But they can't just toss us away. What if they want a second portal? What if something destabilizes the connecti0on? What if something breaks? Who are they gonna call? An [i]intern[/i]?"[/color] She shook her head again. A strand of her hair loosened and fell out of its place. [color=efd7ad]"Why are you coming to me with such conspiracy theories? Do you have evidence? Is there something you aren't telling me, Lisa?"[/color]

Now her body turned to face her wife. She wasn't one to lie to her. Rhiannon knew that. If Lisa thought something was up, then something was up. And just because her heart told her not to believe in it didn't mean it wasn't true. [color=efd7ad]"I'm sorry. Tell me what is going on."[/color]

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