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“Yes, Nandy.” She washed her hands again and then sat down.
They sat, sipped coffee, and ate cake in silence, and then Nandy smiled. “Serve me a second piece, and I will tell you what I have seen in your blood sample.”
Kyda served up a second piece and sat back with her coffee. Nandy picked up her piece, took a bite, then sighed and leaned back. “That’s delightful.”
Kyda smiled. “Thanks. Where do you get your supplies?”
“Oh, there is a greenhouse and hydroponic centre down below.” She smiled. “I get all my fresh fruit and vegetables that way. Including some fish.”
“Why down below?”
“The idea is to keep me from being visible. The Sethir agreed to let me live, but not all of them were willing to let me get to old age.”
Kyda paused. “Oh.”
Nandy finished her cake and sipped her coffee. “Well, Kyda. You are more than you think you are.”
“What do you mean?”
“Your main talent isn’t nullification; it’s absorption.”
Kyda frowned. “What?”
“Absorption. Your body can take power from the blood and use the energy in the same manner as the original wielder.”
Kyda slowly set her mug down. “What?”
“You aren’t meant to destroy actives; you are meant to take in all their activities so you can use them.” She held up a finger to make her point. “And you can keep multiples in your bloodstream to access at any time.”
Kyda blinked. “Are you serious?”
“That was what my experiment was supposed to create. An active to duplicate an active by blood contact, yours or theirs.”
She swallowed and got up to pour more coffee. Nandy poured cream and sugar into hers.
“That’s... incredibly hard to test.”
Nandy laughed. “It really isn’t. I have blood samples from a number of actives. Different traits and strengths. I believe the first test should be a healer.”
“Uh, is blood type an issue?”
“No. Not at the ratios we will be using. One drop will have the effect you need.”
She was very nervous but nodded. “Right. When do you want to start?”
Nandy smiled. “Let’s finish our coffee. Maybe one more slice of cake.”
Kyda knew the cake was moist, but her mouth was dry, which coloured the flavour. She headed downstairs to the lab and watched the researcher get a syringe and go into a nitrogen containment to get a vial. She checked it three times before she took a straw out that began to thaw into a dark red.
Nandy moved swiftly, crimped the tube into two sections, put the half-shot into the container it had come from, and then ran the tube under warm water.
Kyda stood still, and when the blood was drawn into a syringe with a saline mix, she was ordered to sit, so she did. Nandy moved around the room, got a wipe to sterilize Kyda’s inner elbow, picked up the syringe, and went looking for a vein. Kyda hissed when the injection went in. The fluid was cool, but there wasn’t much of it.
Nandy withdrew the needle and pressed down on Kyda’s arm. “Let’s give this a moment. How does it feel?”
Kyda nodded as she closed her eyes. “A curl of silver is running through me, stopping at all of my major organs and making them bloom.”
“Bloom?”
