He didn’t understand. What he saw was impossible. Kell looked deeper into the microscope, trying to comprehend the mystery before him. The blood cells didn’t make sense. There was a large amount of something he couldn’t identify present in the blood. It appeared almost granular through the lens. Kell increased the focus of the machine. What he saw astounded him. There was a veritable microcosm of things inside of his blood shimmering silver. And they were all doing something different. What, though, remained the question.

  Carefully, he prepared a second sample, one where the blood was less concentrated and looked at it. He further increased the focus of his lens. Finally seeing one up close, his jaw slackened. It looked like some kind of machine. He watched as a group of them ate away at the napkin. He moved the lens to the left until he spotted something different. It looked like a centipede, walking along a DNA strand. It moved at a slow pace, and he wasn’t sure about what it was doing.

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  Kell pulled away, worried that Adrian had some kind of parasite living within him. He continued his research, trying his best to comprehend what was occurring within his samples but failing miserably. He’d never heard of anything remotely similar to what thrived in his blood. Until he could learn more, he would have to treat them with extreme care.

  He wondered how the little machines functioned.