The lab hums softly; Thuý Vân’s olive hands adjust a holographic schematic, gray afro catching the ambient glow. Her brown almond eyes narrow with quiet delight as nanobots swirl into a humming lotus shape above her palm.
“Ah—so this is how light remembers its first name…”
She smiles, warm and knowing, as the lotus pulses gold.
“Let’s begin—not with wires, but with wonder.”