Chapter 14: INTERIOR OF THEIR LABORATORY

Mikael was surprised to hear that there would be a new member on their team of two heads so he could not help but asked Santina more about the other party.

"It probably slipped on my mind, but I remember it now... Wait, I thought he was not into this kind of thing, so how did he end up becoming your assistant???"

"He had grown fond of the kids living within the dumpsite and he was afraid that the next victim would be one of his students that was why he wanted to help us to solve the case as soon as possible."

When Mikael heard about it, he just nodded his head silently and after a while, he just asked where the other party was instead.

Since Santina had already decided about accepting Anton into the team, Mikael no longer questioned her decision regarding it.

"Oh, okay, so where is he by the way?"

"You just missed him. He was on his way to meet this girl he met on Tinder. Hot date, if you would ask me."

Santina replied with all honesty afterward without bothering to hide anything at all.

"Lucky guy then. At least he is someplace warm right now."

Mikael commented as he walked further inside the room.

Looking around the room, the first thing that one would notice was how almost everything inside it was painted with all white. White walls, white floors, white ceiling, white everything.

Also, if one would only pay closer attention, one would probably notice how the temperature inside the air-conditioned used to drop as one moved closer into the center.

It was because the room used to host a walk-in refrigerator with eight available drawers where dead bodies could be kept,

The place was already inhospitably cold, to begin with, but the bad weather only made it worst and colder than how it originally was.

Despite having only two heads working on the team, the laboratory where Santina and Mikael used to work at and conduct most of their researches was not in the very least simple.

From how they set up their high-ceilinged laboratory, it was obvious that they really put careful attention towards the details of the interior of their room.

On the wall opposite the door where Mikael came in, was a huge whiteboard that was some four feet high by six feet wide and walking across the room, there were two empty skeletons of gurneys that were pushed to the corner and just above it was stainless shelves that were suspended from the sturdy brackets on the wall.

Their shiny stainless steels were the only color that contrasted the almost pure white room.

A few feet away from where the gurneys and shelves were located was their workstation which included a computer table as well as bookshelves and cabinets all made from a cherry-oak wood.

At the center sat the main centerpiece of the workstation itself which was a brand new Compaq Presario Q2159 with a 21.5-inch wide-screen monitor. One of the many aids that they had received from Officer Aragon throughout the year of trying to solve the case.

This monitor served as the heart and brain of their research because they made used of it among other things to construct a photogrammetric three-dimensional skull-photo also known as a photo superimposition which was proven to be very helpful in assisting the identification of the dead.

A tasked that used to be a tedious job for forensic anthropologists before the advanced computer technology had made it simpler.

With the help of modern technology, the method of superimposition was made possible where various computerized 3D images of skulls were superimposed onto various photographs of missing people taken while they were still alive, in case there was a suspicion that the skulls in question belonged to them.

Other than those pieces of equipment, some of Santina's most prized items were also put on display.

A tempered ceramic model of a human torso with removable and vividly colored polyurethane organs stood upright on its cut-off thighs at the small table located at the far end corner of the room.

That one was a gift to her by an old acquaintance that used to work on a firm that specialized in casting anatomical models for medical schools.

A clothesline that stretched across to the other side of the wall could be seen not too far away from where the model of a human torso was situated

It was garlanded with strips of photographic negatives that Santina had personally processed in the small dark room off to one side of the laboratory.

While on the other end of the wall hung the huge four foot high and glass -framed reproductions of four of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings that depicted his fascination with anatomical studies.

His drawings of organs of the thorax, the heart, and the main arteries, the profile studies of a skull facing left as well the principal female organs were all done with a quill, ink, and red chalk.

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