Page 97 of Heart of Danger
Lee had a new, interesting avenue of research. Arka had developed a miniature, handheld fMRI that could scan brains without the patient knowing. It could be used in the field and already his assistants were taking surreptitious scans of people in movie theaters, in libraries, on athletic fields.
Interesting things were showing up.
But what was most interesting was a paper no one had read because Lee had read it before it could be published and the researcher had had an accident.
Lee had given the researcher, who worked at a psychiatric institute, a prototype of the fMRI to use on the clinically insane. But there were several patients the researcher considered sane, but with unusual talents. He’d written extensive dossiers on the patients, so extensive Lee was convinced they could do what the researcher said they could do.
One could foretell the future.
The other could astrally project.
The third had telekinesis.
Lee had their scans up on his screen, side by side by side. Each had a tiny point of light in the parahippocampal gyrus, a part of the brain normally considered inert. With a slide of his fingers the three scans superimposed and the same point of light existed in the exact same spot.
He had a fourth scan. Of Catherine Young, taken without her knowledge a few weeks before she disappeared. He slid that in on top of the other three and though the morphology of the skulls was different, that point of light was there, in exactly the same place.
There was something in Catherine Young’s brain Lee wanted, very badly.
And he was going to get it.
