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NERVOUS CORPORATE ASSISTANT
-We... we are just preparing the room now, Miss- I mean, Dr Marlowe. Please wait here. May I get you anything? A coffee, perhaps? Tea? Or water? Still or sparkling?
After perfunctorily listening to your answer, the nervous assistant hurriedly leaves.
You never understood this obsession with sparkling water. Who drinks this? Why does it exist? Why would any individual introduce these bizarre sparkling substances, these foreign elements, into your precious bodily fluids? Perhaps this is just what occurs at corporate meetings and conferences.
The room you are in is not actually empty. You are trying to anticipate in your mind what questions these investors may ask of you - with some weariness and resignation, your previous ordeal of the journalist interrogation is recalled to your benumbed thoughts - when you notice two other occupants within this meeting room.
