ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Administrative Recording PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Administrator [ID: KYMN], Song, C. [ID: CSNG] TOPIC: Contagion Fieldwork Request SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Clarissa Song negotiating with an administrator for permission to leave the lab and conduct fieldwork. Employment records corroborate Dr. Song's statements about critical research staff shortages. =================================================================== [KYMN]: Clarissa, I can't approve this fieldwork request. Reed won't allow it. You're needed here. [CSNG]: A third of my research staff are in quarantine; we're running out of options. [KYMN]: I'm sorry about Molly. I am. The survey team is offering to help make up the difference. [CSNG]: Drones have their limits. They aren't curious. They only search for what we tell them to find. [KYMN]: You can't just wander off. [CSNG]: I was one of the first boots down on Marsh. Front line, shoulder to shoulder with the UESC, we mapped this ecosystem. I'm not "wandering" anywhere. [KYMN]: I know. That's my point. Just speaking for myself, for my family… I don't want you out there because I felt better knowing we had you in here. [CSNG]: Then I've let you down. [KYMN]: That's not what I meant— [CSNG]: Please! Please… Let me do what I came here to do. Let me get my hands dirty. [CSNG]: This sickness didn't start with Molly, and it won't end with her either: It's only going to continue its slow, creeping spread. Out there? That's where the answers are. [KYMN]: If I flag you as "emergency medical shift," that's 48 hours of fieldwork, off the books. As the principal agronomist, you're considered "mission critical." It's the best I can do. [CSNG]: Thank you. [KYMN]: I hope you find the answers you're looking for. [CSNG]: Me too. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]