An alarm ends the day-dream

An alarm sound tore Jennifer out of the trance, red lights were flashing and for a split second they made her think of a brothel, but she returned to reality almost immediately. Why was the process not aborting? Such alarm should have caused the automatic control to stop it instantly. In a rush, without fixing her clothes, with her fingers still wet Jennifer got up and in few swift strides reached the manual control console, she hit the big red button. Nothing. She hit it again, few times. No reaction. She was not yet panicking, but felt disoriented. No malfunctions had occurred so far, so she was not ready for a serious one. All the devices could be turned off manually from inside of the experiment room too, the radiation was harmless in small doses so there should be no risk in entering the place; Jennifer decided to go in.

The floor inside of the room was specifically designed not to be slippery, but after an arousing daydream and in her current distressed state Jennifer’s footing was simply unstable, she basically tripped over her own legs and did not even reach the emergency button. Instead she pushed several vials off a counter-top and fell along them onto the floor; she cut her hand in the process, hit her head on the hard tiles and fell ****.