Her days were almost entirely consumed with her apprenticeship at Saret’s lab, while Korum occupied her evenings and – quite frequently – nights.Interning at the lab proved to be a grueling and mentally exhausting job, yet Mia learned more in a few days there than she had during her entire three years of college. Saret made no allowances for her ignorance or for the fact that, as a human, she was slower at certain tasks than his other assistants. On the very first day, he paired her up with Adam and assigned them three projects, the most interesting of which was to figure out how to improve the process of knowledge transfer for Krinar children. Knowledge transfer, Mia had learned, was the way in which Ks educated their young – essentially imprinting the necessary information on their maturing brains, thus eliminating the need for rote learning of such basics as reading, writing, math, and history.After giving her a whirlwind tour of the highly advanced technology used in the lab, Saret told Adam to explain to Mia the research they’d done thus far and to show her the necessary recordings and readings.
