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Jane was feeling nervous. When she had first agreed to be a 'guinea pig' for this experiment, she had laughed the whole thing off as ridiculous. Now, though, she was wondering about what could go wrong-ridiculous or not?
Jane was a 36 y.o single mother of two children, one 12 and one just turned 6. She was quite tall, at 5'10", and had shoulder-length, wavy red hair, a dusting of freckles and an ahtletic build nicely filled out by having two children.
Her husband had walked out on her and the children after he had indulged in an affair and, though she recieved alimony payments from her ex, it still wasn't enough to always make ends meet. So, in order to raise more cash, she often worked as a test-subject for the lab she worked at before she had her children. Most of the experiments she signed up for were fairly run of the mill: testing new drugs, doing excercise studies and trying new food and drinks before they hit the market. Today, though, was going to be different. Her lab was testing a new theory for 'instantaneous matter transportation'. If she knew her science, though, such a feat was an 'impossibility'. This was why she had initially laughed off the possibility of any real danger. Of course, just because it wasn't 'possible' as far as she understood it, didn't mean that an accident couldn't scatter her atoms to the four winds.
It was just as she was having these 'happy thoughts' that the chief scientist opened the door and stepped out of the lab, and into the hallway. 'So Jane,' he said, amiably, 'are you ready to make scientific history?'
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