A row of lab benches by the window, with microscope slides and test tube racks scattered across the surface, and several tubes still inserted in the centrifuge.

What you thinkThe logbook lay open to the final page, written halfway through: specimen number, submission time, preliminary reading. The reading column was written more meticulously than official reports, every stroke careful and precise. Only in the submitting department column was filled an abbreviated project code—a department that didn't exist on any hospital directory map.

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