Gemotions

He stretched, the kinks in his back and shoulders popping with each movement. A sense of buoyant lightness filled him, a feeling he hadn’t experienced in years. The air in his lab seemed to crackle, charged with possibility. He’d poured his soul into this project, a personal transport system that utilized magnetic levitation. Now, to his dismay, he had discovered a patent dating back several months. A competitor, and a formidable one at that, already had it. But instead of despair, a surge of adrenaline coursed through him. "Well, that's just a starting point," he muttered, already making calculations in his head for improvements.