Silver Oak Laboratories

Silver Oak Laboratories is at Phii B 44. It is a quiet spot, which is good for the kind of work we do here. We have a lot of glass tubes, beakers, and scales that need to stay steady. The smell of the lab is something you get used to pretty fast. It is mostly clean and a bit clinical. We spend our days running tests and writing down results in notebooks. Precision is the main thing here. If a measurement is off, we have to start all over again. The staff wears lab coats that are never as white as they were when they were new. We have a schedule for cleaning the equipment every evening before we head home. It is not the most exciting job for everyone, but we like the routine of it. We have a fridge for samples and another one for our lunch, and we make sure nobody mixes them up. The vents on the roof make a rattling noise when the wind picks up. Sometimes we have to wait a long time for a reaction to finish, so there is a lot of standing around and talking about the weather. We don't have a big sign outside, just the number on the door. It is a professional place, but we still joke around to keep the mood light during long shifts.