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diseases.
After it was returned, Rie Fukaumi asked for his arm, and pressed a vacuum syringe
against it to extract a minute sample of blood.
"Just routine", Michelle commented.
Hicks hardly felt the tiny jab. The sample was mixed with a solution before
Michelle drew a line along a piece of paper with more than fifty coded lines
along it, split into three groups. After a few seconds many turned Green
where they'd been touched by the mixture. The remainder stayed blank.
"You're a Soldier, right? The green lines are what you've been innoculated
against. If anything was positive, it'd show up red. Most people have only a
few greens."
"What do the groupings stand for?", he wondered aloud.
"The first are the easily curable ones. If any was red, I'd still go with
you but we'd use protection. The second are the drug resistant ones and the
last are Incurable. You'd be out the door if any of those showed red."
Hicks smiled. It must be nice for the women to be able to pick and choose
who they wanted and not have to worry whether a cli
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