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    Ganesh
glanced at him sideways and raised his eyebrows.    Bearden kept talking.
    “When I
found out you were joining this team, wow, I just had to meet you
face-to-face.”  
    Ganesh
chuckled under his breath.   It
amused him the way Bearden spoke so matter-of-factly of the way he was
recruited to special ops, science unit.   He was certainly confident of his brainpower, if nothing else.  
    “Well it is
very nice to meet you Sergeant Leitner,” Ganesh said as he opened the door to
the senior officer’s coffee lounge.  
    “I will be
right out,” Ganesh said as the door closed in Bearden’s face.
    “Oh, right,
sir.   I will just wait here.”
    “Really?”
Ganesh asked.
    “Actually,
Colonel, I was hoping to discuss something rather important with you about my
future with this project.”
    Humph , thought Ganesh. Something about
this kid intrigued him.   Maybe it
was the over the top flattery, but maybe there was something more to him.   Anyway, he was looking to make sense of
why he was here, so he decided to give this young scientist a little of his
time.
    “Meet me in
my office in half an hour,” Ganesh said.   “Number 459. This floor.”
    “Yes, sir,
thank you, sir,” Bearden said as he turned to walk back down the hall with a
slight skip in his step.

 
    Twenty-five
minutes later, Sergeant Bearden Leitner stood anxiously outside of Ganesh’s
office.   Ganesh was sipping his
coffee and leaning back in his chair staring at a small fish tank in the corner
of the room.   Two colorful Purpoin
fish with bulging yellow eyes swam circles around each other nipping at the
food that Ganesh had dropped in moments earlier.   His office was neat, but not as militant as some of his
colleagues.   The walls were painted
in muted red and mahogany tones. A dark red and cream-colored area rug covered
most of the wooden floor.   A large,
well lit painting of an ocean hung behind his desk in an attempt to compensate
for the lack of windows in this basement facility.   He was thinking about Camden, wondering what he had done so
far with the sample he had given him two days ago.   
    There was an
anxious knock at the door.  
    “Yes, yes,
come in Sergeant Leitner.”   He set
his coffee on his desk and sat up straighter in his chair.   “Please sit down and tell me what it is
you would like to talk about.”
    “Okay,”
replied Bearden.   “Did you know it
was me who discovered the catalyst?”
    Ganesh
leaned forward crossing his arms on his desk. His attention was immediately
captured.
    “Really….”
he said.
    “Yes. It was
my idea to explore the fungal species before the bacteria.”  
    Humph , thought Ganesh.   This
kid has to show me up right away with his science talk. Ganesh was a
specialist in working with computers and flight technologies.   Not biology and botany.  
    “I see,” he
said aloud, as if he knew just as much about science as this smarty-pants
sitting across from him.
    Bearden
continued.
    “It could
have been another two or three years if we had gone through the bacterium
first.”
    “Well then,
congratulations on your insight,” Ganesh said.  
    “Thank you,
sir.”
    “Now, what
is the question you have for me?”
    “Right,” he
said. “I was hoping for some guidance.”
    “Okay.”
Ganesh wasn’t sure what was going to come out of this kid’s mouth or if he
could help at all, but it was in his very nature to try.
    “I received
a phone call early this morning from a private sector science recruiter.   Apparently, I have been selected to
interview with the renowned Lee Tripple for an assistantship in his genetics
program.   And, since my term with
the military is up next month, I was considering going.”
    Whatever
Ganesh was expecting this young man to say, it wasn’t this.   Thoughts began to race through his
head. If Lee hired him, he was likely to find out about the stolen sample.   The one that ‘mysteriously’ found its
way into Lee’s hands, by