Characters 1 -A scientist conducting an observational study. Thinks she knows everything. 2 -1's scientific sidekick. Doesn't think she knows everything, but she tries. Laurel -22, Southeast Asian-American Mattie -22, Southeast Asian-American Setting: A university outdoor café. A table. Two chairs. Summer time. LAUREL, 22 and wearing jeans and a nondescript T-shirt, walks onstage. She is carrying a weighty textbook on monarch butterflies. She looks around for someone, but seeing none, sits

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... antly in the chair. After a few moments, she rises from her seat. She turns, expecting someone there. No one. Pause. Moves to sit. Then, she turns the other way. No one. Pause. Moves to sit again. Footsteps. She turns and a bell rings. Freezes.