"When I saw the Birds' lab, they were doing a lot of stuff with people's circulatory systems," May says. "Pulling their whole veins out and stuff. It was disgusting."
"Perhaps we ought to focus there, then," Philo says, calling up a schematic of Dr. Mangrove's circulation from the scan. His screen lights up with veins, and blood flow moving through. Nothing seems unusual.
"Zoom in," Feller says. Philo's screen focuses in on just one vein, then the blood inside, then the molecules...
"No. Way. Look at this," Feller says, pointing. "Philo, are you seeing that?"
"It's on my screen, therefore I see it," Philo says.
"Right. But look here," Feller says. "That's not blood. That's something else. Something molecular. It almost looks like..."
"Nanotechnology!" May blurts out. "They weren't installing an implant, they were injecting him."
"Or infecting him," Feller says.
"The invading agent is operating on the molecular level," Philo says. "Now we must devise a method to remove it."
"Remove what?" Dr. Mangrove says, appearing at the doorway.
Philo blanks his screen.
About Betsy Streeter
Betsy Streeter is an author and artist and voracious consumer of books, music, movies, and more books and music and movies. And TV. Don't forget TV. She can explain the Infield Fly Rule. She once rigged a special effect for film using a squeeze bottle, surgical tubing and dry ice.
She's been published by King Features, The Funny Times, Utne, Perihelion Science Fiction, Literary Orphans, Fiction Vortex, Oxford University Press, the University of Wollongong, Jack Canfield, and a cornucopia of other fine publications to whom she is grateful.
Her YA science fiction novel entitled "Silverwood" comes out in March 2015.
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