what was I made for? | Glowfic Constellation

She now has a... strange brown liquid... which doesn't look like what you'd get for merely mixing plants and water? So probably something happened?

Neat! She wonders what! She expects that there is some sort of system for testing them that she doesn't know about yet, because she is a dumb newbie. So she happily labels it as Substance 1, and then moves on down the list to make Substance 2! Wheeeee~

They achieve different colours and consistencies! A couple do just look like water with crushed petals, though.

They are still nonetheless valuable contributions to the scientific method! She is trying stuff, and she's writing it down, and keeping careful track of everything she's doing, and soon she will be all done with this list and have all flowers and petals combined in all of the combinations she's been told to combine them in! And then they will do... something... to test them, probably, or study them in some way before testing? Yvette doesn't know the specifics of how yet, but she's excited to find out!

If it wasn't obvious, she is having a great time. But it was probably very obvious.

Now she has some Substances.

Yay! Substances!

Once she has all Substances, she takes them happily back to Eleanor, along with her notes. Behold! Substances! That are labelled! And notes! With numbers corresponding to the labels!

"Hello again, sweetie! What are these?"

"The candidate synthetic food serum recipes you asked me to make!" she says, still all sunshine and rainbows despite how why does she find her boss hot has reared its head again. She made Substances, and notes on Substances, and all seems right with the world. "And here are my notes, I wasn't sure how we would see which ones worked well or not, so I just have everything without testing?" The tray of Substances is vast. It's so pleasing.

"Oh, gosh. These looks very nice, good job. Have you tested the serums?"

"Thank you!" Being told she's doing a good job at her first day of work makes her feel all warm and fuzzy inside. "Nope! How do I do that?"

"Why, you drink them, naturally. They're food serums, silly!"

"... that seems very unsafe, though?"

"Oh, don't worry about it, they're perfectly safe!"

Considering nobody here actually knows what any of these untested substances (sorry, Substances) do, that's just completely untested and probably factually incorrect?

She's almost certainly being hazed, but on the other hand: if this dumb prank sends her to the hospital, maybe someone there will actually help her with her weird brain problem. Which is ultimately what she wants. This is incredibly stupid, but also, it's her literal job, none of the plants she was picking were poisonous, and a food serum would probably be great for reducing world hunger. Also, if this is a prank and she just plays it absolutely seriously, all of her coworkers will be slightly terrified of her, which sounds like great fun. Also, like, she ate the heirloom fruitcake, so clearly she's a crazy person.

So that's why she picks out the Substance that looks like it's done some sort of something or other - that is, not one of the ones that just looks like bits of flower petals in water, and not any of the unappetizing looking brown ones - and then: well, bottoms up. If this does terrible things to her digestive system, she's pretty sure she's going to be set for life, insurance wise.

Glug!

It tastes like nothing much. Also, whatever hunger she might've picked up from spending hours doing the same thing and not keeping track of the time is gone.

... Huh! That is a highly unlikely outcome, considering everything! She... might have a new hypothesis for what exactly is happening. Or why she feels so crazy. But it bears more testing, so.

"This one. Food serum," she reports, setting down the vial and noting it on her little notepad.

"Wonderful! How about the other ones?"

".... I can test them, but isn't the food serum what we ultimately wanted? Are there any expected results from the others?"

Really devoted to making her drink the gross plant water, huh.

"Oh, it's fine if you don't want to test them all, sweetheart, you don't need to."

"Oh! Good, okay. And task successfully completed?"

"Indeed! Good first day. Now, you still have some time in your day, so why don't you go chat to the Invention Constructor for a bit to see if it gives you inspiration for a new invention?"

"Sure, that's -" she points at a station that looks like it might have that name. On a hunch. "That thing, yes?"

"Mmhm!"

Nod! "Thanks," she says, and off she goes.

She has the sneaking suspicion that using this thing will be pretty straightforward. Call it pattern recognition. It doesn't need her to literally chat, right, she's beginning to despair of ever having a normal conversation ever again.