"I'm just saying that if it were to fall into a lake and be irreparably damaged… and if you threw an emp grenade in after it…"
Hikaru knows that the woman is implying something. He's a scientist, intelligent and smart, but...he simply cannot fathom what @danversiism is asking him to do. Throw all of this hard work...into a radiation filled lake and destroy it.
A warm, rippling breeze rustles through the desert. Sun, his synth bodyguards stands a steady vigil but Hikaru is sure his companion is paying close attention to what is going on.
"But why?" the scientist finally asks, hands rolling the canister over in his palms. Brown eyes look up at Carol, searching her face. Why would she want to destroy progress? With these samples, who knows what genetic information they could uncover. "We could do so much good with this." He waves the metal cylinder. "Maybe we could fix the mutant populations or bring back some of our crops. I've had enough maters, squirrel, and Cram to last a lifetime."
