In this short story, we first meet Nuya, The Biologist, as a young lady.

Set in her home city of Saristair, we catch a glimpse of what will become her lifelong motivation: to save lives.

Saristair is an ancient coastal city where the buildings are cut deep into steep sandstone cliffs

Episode 1 of the Parallax Portraits series, "Falling For You" was written for a short-story competition for The Observer Newspaper.

After being re-sized, it is now printed on 8 pages of A4.

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