She'd been afraid of this. And when she realized that, she realized she was afraid of England more than anywhere else. Rose had feared being replaced, or forgotten, or worse, needed. The look of patience she'd been giving Basil faded when he finished speaking, and she had to look back down at her drink and harden, both in her features and her voice.
"There's an expedition being sent out in a month to an unexplored area of Papa New Guinea," she explained curtly. "It's a coveted opportunity by anyone in the organization, and they asked me." Rose shrugged and lifted her glass. "Best chance I'll ever have at discovering a species." She took a long drink to help with her tension.
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