It was a fairly boring experience after that with Avery not really having much to do besides helping Raina to test her samples. Of course, it went without saying that Raina was the real scientist there and Avery was just tasked with helping, so in reality, this of course meant that even if Avery wasn't present, things would have progressed more or less the same on the same track albeit at a slightly slower pace. Avery wasn't too sure what she was doing, of course, but found that she was able to do a relatively good job provided she followed Raina's instructions to a tee. It wasn't easy, of course, since anyone who worked in the science industry knew that scientists were particularly picky and Raina most of all. Understandable though, when you realized just exactly what her goal was; that is, to ultimately reduce pollution in the city and increase the level of aquatic life in Hargeon. A lofty goal, to be sure.
Avery wasn't a hundred percent sure what testing water samples had to do with increasing the level of aquatic life in Hargeon though, but at the same time, she wasn't actually a marine biologist. Right now, she just took orders from one. "People should be more surefooted when it comes to water,
you know? Pollution is horrible. Sometimes I think the Earthland would be much better off if every human was just gone. That way, animals, whether they live on the land or the sea, could just live freely.
What do you think?" the marine biologist looked at Avery as though she were saying the most natural things in the world, and was looking towards the adventurer for approval.
Avery didn't particularly like to lie, but at the same time, she had a natural sensitivity to topics like this, so she knew that if she disagreed, then things could potentially get ugly. Since there was payment on the line, the adventurer mage decided to swallow her pride for now and nod along with the young marine biologists' delusions, as though Avery herself also believed that her and her kind should go extinct for the benefit of just about every other living thing on this planet of Earthland. When she thought about it that way, actually things might actually have been better if humans were no longer around, but Avery didn't want to die just yet, damn it.
"We're just about done, I guess," the marine biologist called Raina eventually said after the pair of them tested their, perhaps 11th or 12th sample. The marine biologist was a lot of things like kooky and wacky but she certainly wasn't stingy as she handed Avery the money that she was owed. "Well, in my ideal world, things like this won't be needed at all, so don't be too happy about this reward, you hear?" the marine biologist gave Avery this one last chilling comment before sending her off on her way. The adventurer didn't care though. She was happy as is.
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