Anna nodded.
“Exactly.”
She stood and walked across the room, deliberately slow, demonstrating what no laboratory had measured properly before.
“My engineers tried to solve this with software, robotics, artificial intelligence,” she said. “You solved it with intuition.”
Sergei shook his head.
“I just watched how you moved.”
Anna turned back to him.
“That’s why I want you,” she said.
The word hung in the air heavier than expected.
“Not like that,” she clarified calmly, amused by his sudden stiffness.
“I want your mind. Your hands. Your way of seeing problems.”
She laid out her offer without exaggeration.
A new workshop.
Modern equipment.
A team.
Funding without deadlines.
Freedom to experiment.
Sergei listened, heart pounding, disbelief threatening to overwhelm gratitude.
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