I accepted every condition.

I arrived early and spent twenty minutes looking at a bed of autumn asters without really seeing them.

When the girls appeared, both carried notebooks, though Sophie had also brought a small camera borrowed from school.

We walked along a gravel path beneath trees just beginning to change color.

At first the conversation concerned their research and the competition.

Chloe explained how the final model had nearly failed a reliability test.

Sophie described the argument they’d had over whether to rebuild the entire sensor interface the night before the deadline.