Thorne asked, "Want to go together when the time comes?"

Vesta instinctively started to refuse. "I don't-"

She was about to say she wasn't sure she'd have time, but then realized that wasn't really her style. So before the word "don't" was fully out, she changed course. "Sure."

With that, she was about to sit on the couch when her eyes caught a document on Thorne's desk. The title made her pause mid-step.

Noticing her gaze, Thorne explained, “The company's interested in developing a new large-scale model. That's a research report on PrimeStar's programming language and two of their latest in-house projects. There's some pretty interesting stuff in there-they actually made some headway. You'll probably get a lot out of reading it."

As he spoke, he handed her the file.

If this had been before, Vesta would have taken the report with genuine curiosity and excitement.

But now...

Her expression stiffened for a split second.

Still, Thorne had already passed it to her, so she had no choice but to accept it. "Alright."

couldn't help but ask, "If we're only now starting to look into PrimeStar and develop our own thing, won't the market have moved on by the

point isn't to copy what PrimeStar's done. It's about

"Yeah... that makes sense."

its value. And those two projects they just launched? I'd bet it'll take other companies at least three years to even catch up, even at today's

tone left no doubt about his admiration

Vesta

truly admired talented

found out that Charlene was

two breakthrough projects had only been

probably led the teams behind both

knew any

who was already engrossed in

fos turned white.

Vesta went to the

family was chatting animatedly around the table when, suddenly, a news segment about PrimeStar

looked up, just as the anchor reported on PrimeStar's new

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