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At first Dira said nothing, but then she nodded. “Let’s keep going then,” she said softly. Myqian had a medical degree, but she residency had been in psychiatry. Still, she knew physiology enough to parse the potential problems they were facing.

Captain Myqian, CO

John raised an eyebrow. Hashimotos. Intriguing he thought as he listened to the next lot of required tests. John grabbed a second hypospray and walked over to Dira, ready to take more blood samples for the antibody tests.
“May I Captain?” He asked waited for permission to proceed.

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Dira gestured with a flourish towards her arm. “By all means,” she said. At least she could sound neutral about the whole situation, even if inside, she was stressed. But answers were the goal, so she had to be open to the process.

Captain Myqian, CO

John placed the hypospray on Dira’s arm and drew the required blood again and walked over to the testing station. He ran the scan of the blood sample and waited patiently for the results. He was surprised that she was seemed so outwardly in control of her reaction to the news that she might have an autoimmune disease. He made a note to talk it about later when it would be more appropriate..
Lt John McCandless, Head Nurse

His surprise floated over her sense and Dira just watched as he took the sample. She wasn’t sure if she should say something, and as she had more or less reminded herself lately, just because she sense something or picked up on someone’s thoughts to easily, didn’t mean it was okay to let them know that. She chided herself for not wearing the headband Solomon made for her.

As the computer analyzed her blood, the antibody test results were very curious: there were negative for all the conditions they were testing for. Whatever it was, it wasn’t a specific autoimmune disease, even though it was making her body react as if it was.

Captain Myqian, CO

John looked at the results, if he was surprised before he was certainly was now. Dira would be able to feel it. He turned to Solal.
“Doctor, come and take a look these results.” He said thoughtfully wandering what the Doctor would think when he saw the negative results.

Lt. John McCandless, Head Nurse