Zenn Scarlett by Christian Schoon

Author:Christian Schoon [Schoon, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Mystery, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781908844552
Amazon: 1908844558
Goodreads: 16071885
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
Published: 2013-05-07T07:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Twenty minutes later, Zenn had positioned the sedated Zeus in the sling-like cradle of straps and fluid-filled cushions that occupied the center of the Mag-Genis unit. The machine’s dozen articulated emitter arms were arrayed around the cat, making him look like a furry orange-and-white fly about to be wrapped up in the web of an approaching metal spider.

Zenn was seated on a rolling stool in front of the unit. Three virt-screens floated in the air above her. Two displayed different angles and magnifications of the cat’s internal structures, the third screen showed a variety of system controls and progress bars. Within arm’s reach on two surgical instrument trays, she’d placed the Mag-Genis user’s manual and a stack of v-films detailing feline anatomy.

After Otha had gone to join Hild at the ultratheer’s birthing pen, Liam said he would stay and help in any way he could. But there was little he could do. Zeus’ fate was solely in Zenn’s hands now.

Her finger hovered over the machine’s primary system start-button.

“Alright, this will start the process,” she told Liam, who peered over her shoulder. “Once I push this, there’s no going back. Ready?”

“I’m ready if you are. And if Zeus is.”

“Oh, we’ll assume he’s ready,” Zenn said, and she pushed the button.

The spindly arms of the machine clattered to life, each one moving into its initial position. On the hovering v-screens, a series of colored areas lit up on the images of Zeus’ body.

“What’s happening? What are those?” Liam asked, leaning in to see better.

“That shows the parts of Zeus the machine is working on,” she said, pointing. “Like here, the red, blinking line is the main vein to the thigh muscles of his left leg. That’s what is being rebuilt. Now, I just have to direct the magnetic beam… down here…” She moved a slider on the control screen. “…like that. There.”

“Oh. I get it. You have to tell it where to go.”

“Right. At every juncture…” Zenn directed one of the emitter arms to move a few millimeters. “…I need to keep the process keyed in on the right area, in the right order, at the right time.”

“Otha said you couldn’t stop once you started, though, right?”

“The Mag-Genis has to harvest cells from Zeus’ body. It will use those cells to rebuild him,” she said. “To do that, it makes a sort of… liquidy soup out of his damaged internal organs and other tissues. Then it injects microscopic amounts of magnetite into the cells. So now, every cell has a little extra iron in it. That lets the machine use its magnetic fields to move the cells into place – that’s the energy scaffold. Zeus is on life-support while this happens, but if you stopped the rebuilding process, that soup of cells would disintegrate. We wouldn’t be able to get them back.”

She poked a finger at the control screen. “Alright. We just started the rebuild of his left tibia – the bone between the knee and ankle.” Liam leaned in even closer, crowding her where she sat.

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