Vane's collar flared orange. "Run the full panel. Now." They wheeled in equipment I didn't recognize. Electrodes on my temples, a scanner humming at a frequency I felt behind my eyes. Vane stood the entire time. Didn't sit. Didn't blink. His eyes tracked the screen like he was reading a verdict. The data populated line by line. Sherman stared at it for a long time. "No damage." Vane's voice was tight. "None?" "None." Sherman's gaze left the screen and landed on me. That look. The researcher examining a sample that just talked back. "Bond aside. I'm looking at her individual readings. Her psychic capacity reads at A-tier resonance. With reserves I cannot quantify." I sat up. "I tested E-class six months ago." She pulled up my intake file. Two sets of numbers, side by side. The gap w

