The 20-year-old diesel buses that Auckland still used would puff past him every couple of minutes as he walked, spewing a cloud of black soot into his face.
“Clean and Green,” he muttered sarcastically, recalling New Zealand’s tourism campaign.
Finally, he arrived on campus and headed into his lab building.
As Eric switched on the flickering fluorescent lights little white mice in cages on the wall squeaked and skittered about in a flurry of activity.
“Hello little ones, how was your night?
Better than mine I’m sure.”
Eric chuckled to himself,
“Oh well, it is good to see you all again too after so many, cough, hours apart.”
Eric smiled as he prepared his work.
He was studying the effects of degenerative diseases of the brain like Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s.