396 Hadi's Tragedy

Hadi made a beeline for his laboratory, the urgency propelling him forward despite the considerable distance from the display center. Unbeknownst to him, this hurried decision was about to irrevocably change the course of his life.

Upon entering, the familiar chaos of his workspace greeted him—an ever-present testament to the fervor of his scientific pursuits. Books lay haphazardly strewn across every surface, their pages splayed open as if in the middle of a conversation. In one corner, vials of various liquids teetered on the edge of order and chaos, their arrangement disrupted, no doubt, by the exhaustive preparations for today's presentation. Normally, his younger sister would have tidied up the aftermath of their nocturnal experiments, but exhaustion from their latest endeavor had left the lab in an uncharacteristic disarray.