On the lab floor, Specialist Tran began to tremble. She lifted a gloved hand to her visor, though there was nothing to wipe away. “I smell… rain,” she whispered, her voice crackling over the comm. “And jasmine. And hot metal. It’s not here. It’s from somewhere else.”

Because sexual profanity and taboo slang are highly discouraged in formal writing, these terms are often found in the "underground" web or private social media groups.

"About thirty."