The air's thick with a haze of what assume is either pollen or dust. Your first instinct tells you it's probably not pollen. One, it doesn't smell like anything and two, you're not sneezing up a storm. Though you're not sure if you have a pollen allergy or not. You don't really know a lot about the state of your own body, to be frank, it was all put on the back burner during your job.

Hell, you don't remember the last time you got a check up. Two? Three years ago?

Ah, what the hell, you're stalling for time because you don't want to work. You need to study this thing and nothing about what weird pollen it may or may not have will deter you from that. It's just another obligation you have to deal with.

No point drowning in self pity right now. You got a job to do.
You apologize to the corpse flower bed thing that you'll be RIGHT back but you gotta get a broom. It doesn't respond. Whether it's unable to or it simply had nothing to say, you'll have to figure that out later.

While you're grabbing the broom, you pause for a moment. There's a noise that you couldn't quite make out but it's not inside your lab. It's outside. Probably a few hallways away with how muffled it was. It sounded heavy and metallic, though.

You return to the containment cell.
Cleaning up the cell was far easier and far quicker than you expected. There's not much to clean up in the cell so you're treating this more of a stimuli test. Does the anomaly care if its room is clean or not?
You keep an eye on the anomaly as you clean, clean, clean like the good janitor you are.

About twenty minutes later and this place is sparkling clean.
Its hands have long since gone dormant. It hasn't been grasping for anything ever since you started cleaning up. You wait for a moment and even after a few minutes, there's no sign of it getting impatient/hungry/lonely/whatever causes the electricity to short.

You scribble it down on the papers you stole from the folder. 'Returned to a calm state when its cell was cleaned.'
It made YOU feel better too. All upside here, baby.

You move onto your next bit of research - Its flowers. You hesitated on whether to go with the corpse or the flowers first but you're not sure how it would react to its body being messed with. Probably best to stick with a safer test this time around.

>1 SUCCESS!

You gently wrap your fingers around one of the flowers. The stem feels like any old power cord cable you'd find for cheap at a Walmart. Its surface is rubbery and cold with not much give to it from all of the wiring inside the plastic shell.
The flower, however, looks exactly like any old flower you'd find growing in a field. The base of the flower is merged seamlessly with the power cable with no hint that they were ever separate objects.

The petals feel as soft and fragile as any other flower's petals. There is something odd about the petals, though. When you put ANY pressure on them, their texture changes.