Of course it's going against your skin. I can't imagine it's any less alarming than whatever URSULA gave you to make it glitter like that. [ Honestly. She wished she could just tell this kid and the ones like him to shove it and leave her be. The urge to puncture him and suck out all the blood was not going away.

She stuck her arm out and pressed it against her inner elbow. A little reading blipped on the device. Blood Pressure. Breathing rate. Temperature. Heart Rate. Perspiration. Muscle twitches. Any immediately obvious foreign bodies (he might be able to see 'Bleeder mutation' if he were sharp eyed enough).

Dramatically, she took the sensor away and wiped the slightly wet splotch on her arm with an antiseptic wipe, then used another to wipe the sensor clean itself. Magical. ] What an imposition.