The first medical comparison did not look like a catastrophe.
It looked like two narrow traces laid side by side beneath the independent medic’s lamp. One came from the relevant portion of a hunter’s existing record, shared under the agreement she had made privately. The other represented Juno’s predicted connection. Tessa had imagined a frightening resemblance. What she saw required the medic to point out an interval she would otherwise have missed.
“Here,” the medic said. “And the repeated structure after it.”
The hunter leaned forward. “That’s in me?”
“It’s in this record of your active contract,” the medic answered. “We aren’t looking at every part of you.”
Tessa appreciated the precision more after she saw the hunter’s face. A technical category could swallow a person so quickly. She set the nonidentifying copy beside Juno’s interpretation and asked the medic to describe the limit before the result traveled.
Corresponding signature. Support for a living connection to the mechanism. A small sample, selected by agreement, not representative of every holder. No collapse had been tested. The comparison did not prove that every connected person would suffer the same effect, or establish whether distance changed the risk.
The hunter asked whether she should stop using her contract.
