Owen Yates looked up from his hospital workstation, his tablet flashing with an urgent alert. It had only been six months since humanity's first official contact with the Galanians, and the interspecies medical exchange program was still new and uncertain, as Earth's top orthopedic trauma surgeon and the human liaison for the program. As they positioned the ambassador beneath the specialized scanner, Owen noticed Alora's hands trembling. Your doctors placed foreign metal inside you deliberately, and you live as normal, better than normal, Owen replied tapping his leg. With fixation, Owen said, the ambassador could return to light duties in two weeks if his physiology responds well.