Novel & Cerita Scans

The air felt colder there. I laid back against the examination bed while she adjusted the machine beside me. A second later, cool gel pressed against my stomach. I inhaled sharply at the temperature. The scanner moved slowly across my skin. The monitor beside her flickered with shifting gray images I couldn’t fully understand. Then— A soft, steady sound filled the room. My fingers curled slightly against the edge of the bed before I could stop them. Then she glanced toward the monitor. “Everything looks stable.” I kept my eyes on the screen even after she wiped the gel away.

The machine switched on, and Suzanne immediately started with pressing the scanner against Kaeden stomach. Kaeden growled, “Mom, not so hard!” Suzanne looked at her son, then chuckled, “Yes, yes,” she said and looked back at the screen. She moved the scanner over Kaeden’s stomach a bunch of times in circles covering a large area, then sat down on the chair mumbling, “I don’t believe it.”

"Check these. Tell me if they’re real or if we’re being played." The tech guy moved to a side table and pulled out a high-res scanner and a tablet. He started running some software that looked like a bunch of green code sliding down a black screen. He was looking for pixel inconsistencies—checking the metadata of the images to see if they’d been scrubbed or altered.

"Could you let me take a look at the product?" Even Timothy frowned this time. "Ms. Jessie, this isn't the time for games. Please step aside." Jessie clicked her tongue, but still said politely, "The ocular scan tech works by scanning a patient's body and providing basic data. It then cross-references with the medical database to instantly give a read on their condition, easing the workload for doctors. Is that right?" Timothy blinked in surprise. He subconsciously glanced at Jack. Jack didn't so much as glance back at him, but his presence was enough to make the air tense.

The scan room was dim, the machine humming, the technician a woman named Priya who I'd seen twice before and who had the particular calm of someone who did this forty times a week and still seemed to find it interesting. "Two fathers today?" she asked cheerfully, gesturing at the two extra chairs. "One sister, one father," I said. "Long story." "Most of them are," Priya said, unbothered, and started the scan. The screen flickered to life. Grey and white, the strange underwater geography of it, and then there. Two distinct shapes, curled, one larger than the other.

“Let’s pretend.” She gestures to the chair across from her. I sit. The table between us becomes an island of light in a room full of shadow. The sound of the old clock near the door is louder at night, each tick slicing time into neat pieces as if time can be managed if you quantify it. Livia slides one of the scan printouts toward me. It’s an infrared structural scan, the kind that reveals density changes and internal fractures. The bridge looks like a ghost in grayscale—dark and pale bands showing stress points like bruises beneath skin.

“John is in that coming car. Let’s wait for him before going in.” Carl couldn’t see the area properly but the lights on the road and around the lake made him take his breath. He looked at the huge two tall doors where Francois had just come out. John finally arrives. Lucas comes out from the driver seat and takes out a device at the back of the car. Michael recognises it. It's the scanner for any transmitter or any tool for a radio wavelength. It is the newest model from Germany. “This is Lucas. He will give you a scan then we can go inside” said Francois.

she added, glancing at her notes. My body stiffened and I looked down at my hands. “No,” I said. “Alright, if that changes, it’s good to have support, but we’ll make sure you’re well taken care of regardless.” After she left, I stayed where I was for a bit, just sitting there still a little stunned. Cierra picked up the scan and handed it to me. I took it and looked at it properly this time. It wasn’t clear, it was just shapes and shadows. If I didn’t know what I was looking at, I probably wouldn’t have understood it.

That could only happen if the kid were to go into medical emergency they weren't prepared for. All his preparations were not in vain. The cavalry indeed arrived in light feet. Not much backup in transit, just two cars. The first one carrying a thermal scanner with an infrared camera. Every breathy entity within the vicinity would glow red, green and yellow on their screens in the outline of their bodily shape. They read heat signatures in good twenty five metres vicinity. Any discrepancies in infrared energy between animate and inanimate objects would crash the scanner. They could hack it, but they'd give themselves away.