Her finger hovered over the ‘X’ button. But the next slide loaded automatically.
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The search engine churned. Page one was the usual suspects: “Comprehensive Embryology MCQs (1000+ Questions),” “NEET PG Previous Year,” “Lippincott’s Q&A.” She’d seen them all. Her eyes glazed over. Her finger hovered over the ‘X’ button
The questions got harder. More specific. They asked about the exact hour of cardiac looping. The precise number of somites at which the anterior pituitary begins to form. The migratory path of neural crest cells as if they were characters in a spy novel. She hadn't been with anyone in months
But at the bottom of the screen, a new notification blinked. It wasn’t from her browser. It was from her own body. A faint, phantom pulse in her lower abdomen. A flutter of cells that had no business being there.