The sterile, humming medical bay of the Tech-Savant mobile headquarters became their world for the next several days. Dr. Thorne's team worked with efficient, if cold, precision, treating burns, mending fractures, and running endless scans to measure the "metaphysical resonance shifts" in each of them.
True to her word, Thorne handled the logistics, though not without a constant, sotto voce stream of complaints and fascinated observations. "The cellular regeneration rate in subject Zoe is now 300% above baseline… Fascinating, but it's draining her caloric reserves at an alarming pace. Someone get her another three steaks! ...And the psionic scarring on Clarissa's neural pathways—it mirrors the fractal pattern of the collapsed rift! Do you dream in geometry now? No, don't answer, just keep the EEG on…"
