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Libertas - Chapter 0: Wake
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Dr. Adrian Nephram was mostly staring at his feet, because that's what everyone else was doing. It was a little awkward.
How was one supposed to react properly to the death of a colleague, he wondered. He certainly didn't know. Death customs weren't something that came up in casual conversation, and it wasn't something he could recall any of his professors ever teaching. Nothing thus far had really prepared him for a situation like this, and it made him slightly... what? Uncomfortable? No, not quite.
It was everyone else who was uncomfortable. He felt out of place because he wasn't.
Some of the others, from the microbiology department, where the deceased had worked, were standing in a group, drinking alcohol, reminiscing about mishaps on the job and the practical jokes in which the late doctor was a frequent participant. Every few sentences they'd lapse into silence and just sort of gaze off into the distance. Not that there was
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