Hearing what Diego said about the itching, the nurse picked up her glass tablet to look at the data the nanites were transmitting with their action and what she saw, shocked her.
The monitoring display had updated the moment the nanites activated.
She had expected data. She had been briefed on what the monitoring output would look like, with the clean columns of biological variables, the nanite activity indicators, the repair progress tracking she had spent two days learning to read during orientation.
What she had not been briefed on was the speed at which the nanite works.
The nanite activity column was not initializing. It was not running a startup sequence or establishing baseline readings before beginning work. It was already at full operational output, with every indicator live, the biological assessment complete and the repair prioritization already done.
She had depressed the injector thirty seconds ago.
