Accounting for Variable X

Jamii was looking forward to the day she would work with her hero in the Hargrove Research Institute, but when she got there she was met by a man who was more eccentric, and scarier, than she was expecting. However, Jamii's attempts to cope with the assortment of feelings she gets from working with him proves to be more dangerous than the man himself.

This is a story that I was originally going to submit as a contest entry for the SciFi and Magic collaborative contest in January 2018 but I didn't submit it on time so I'm submitting it here! I hope that you like it! I gave it A TON of symbolism even though it's only around 1700 words.