Ætherglow #17

“Okay,” Synth says, looking around at the other seven of you. “Any thoughts on how to proceed?”

“Hi,” an older enby raises their hand. “I’m Ana, it/its, I’m a nurse at TLA. I was thinking that there is a way an attacker could survive something like that, if they had injected themself with a high dose of a G-stimulant.”

“How long could that effect last, would they have had to do it on the shuttle where their podmate would see?” Synth says.

“No, they could have done it in the spaceport,” Ana says.

“Could you tell if one of us was under the effect of such a drug?” Synth says.

“Without analytical equipment, only people who already have implants monitoring their blood chemistry could be measured here.”

“That means you could at least check the blood of trans people with hormone implants, or anyone else with a bioreactor implant of some kind,” Synth says.