From deception comes invention

[Dr.Steel]

The mad Gaian and his Nurses whisper in staccato bursts while the Doctor's pencil dances across his notepad.
He scribbles furiously.
"...Neural dampers..."
"...chemical long-strain axons?"
"...have to grow them..."
"...need samples..."
"...biological amalgams..."
"...Nomads?..."

Dr. Steel's head snaps up and he tears a piece of paper from his notebook.
Stomping over to Sotha Sil, he shoves it into his hand, and blurts out;

"POTASSIUM!"

Amid a lab full of startled faces, tense guards, and an ignored test subject, Dr. Steel stands tersely still.
"Nomad Neuroscience - is potassium present in Nomad neurology?"

He stares down his nose at his captors like a professor awaiting an answer from a dim-witted student.

Blinking into the silence, he flicks a half-look at Franz and Torro Trait.
"Yes," he says exasperatedly, waggling a gloved hand at the test subject. "that one is fine. Whatever."

"Po-" he asks again. "-Tass-" as his mirrored goggles wink in the lab lights "Eee-" and he stabs a finger at the note in Sotha Sil's hand "Umm?"

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