The headmaster entered. What was happening? Was he simply attending to some odd jobs, or – better – was there perhaps an unexpected caning? No e...tirely unexpectedly – and, she thought, possibly indicating the more interesting possibility, Miss Martin, the Matron, followed him into the room.This was not surprising, because on several previous occasions Lynette had seen Miss Martin in attendance at canings. Their conversation was not audible, but something about it, especially Miss Martin’s. What did Faye do?”Dana pressed a few buttons on her console, and a long list of metals appeared, including a wide variety of data on each element. “She sorted and categorised all the known metals, including those the Trankarans sold to us.” Glancing to her side, she asked the sprite intuitively, “Is this list sorted by bonding likelihood with Onyxium?”Faye hopped off Rachel’s arm, and her wings disappeared as she skipped along to sit on the console in front of Dana. “That’s right!” the AI. He’s booked me on the next flight to London and it leaves this evening. I’ve just got off the phone with Mrs. Chang and I’ve arranged for Nina to come stay with you guys for the duration I’m gone. Mrs. Chang would drive Nina over as soon as she’s back from Tahoe. As you know, I always believe in safety in numbers. And oh by the way, Mrs. Chang would be coming in every now and then to check up on the three of you. So please behave,’ Arianna said as she bustled around the kitchen. ‘Yes, mom!’. Improvements in microtesting on an assembly line basis was another important part of the picture. The same amount of blood, fluids, and tissue samples that used to be taken for single tests were now split into dozens or hundreds of samples that would then be run through massive testing batches and examined automatically by computers scanning them microscopically. The advances that allowed this, and the resulting efficiencies of scale meant that it was cheaper to test large numbers of people all.