章 154: The Things We Do For Love

[🎶 What Lovers Do – Maroon Five ft. SZA.]

"Israfel?" Yemaya nudged gently. The ruddy young [Apollyon] blinked and refocused. His vision seemed blinded by a tear cloud and he stared straight ahead at the giant aquarium and the winy octopus threading the water with glowing purple tentacles. Yemaya's voice came soft again. "Are you okay, my Lord? You went out on me for a second there."

"The octopus," Rafel pointed at the iridescent organism in the clear marine glass. "Is it a hybrid?"

Yemaya was not happy about Rafel changing the subject, but she answered, explaining why the octopus' body shimmered like a lamp. "Yes, it is. Bonnie is a new addition to a hybrid culture at the Atlantean Research Institute. My best scientists came up with a way to inject zygotic cells of jellyfish into octupi embryos.

Bonnie is the pioneer species." She ended.