As the save bar filled, a pop-up appeared. It wasn't an error. It was a simple grey box with blue text: "Simulation converged. Would you like to generate an automated report?"

"Crazy," she muttered. That was for LNG, not her modest shale gas.

She powered down the laptop, the hum of the fan fading to silence. Tomorrow, she would tell Manish Sir. And she would finally ask the right question: “How do I get V11?”

Maya Singh had been staring at the black and gold schematic for eleven hours. On her screen, a sprawling web of pipes, columns, compressors, and valves sprawled across a desert landscape of grey gridlines. It was an upstream gas plant—her design, her headache, and her shot at making senior process engineer before she turned thirty.