Alyssandra<br/><br/>KNOCKKNOCKNOCK!  Alyssandra jumped, nearly spilled boiling liquid down her front, swore, and then took a moment to reflect on how she’d been doing all of those quite a lot recently.  Looking at all the half-finished projects strewn about the lab, she came to the conclusion that some god or other decided she was not going to get anything productive done this day.<br/>“Just a moment!” she called loudly in the general direction of the door.  She made the workspace fast, making certain nothing was likely to explode whale she was gone, and stumbled out into the sitting room.  The dull fuzz that generally followed from little sleep and intense concentration was most likely blunting the devouring Fear that logically should have been clawing her mind to shreds; for she felt none of it as she reached to open the door.<br/>