Leo stepped forward.
“The swelling… it’s not a mass.”
The room went still.
The chief doctor frowned.
“What did you say?”
Leo pointed.
“There’s something stuck. Not inside the body… in the airway. It moves when he tries to breathe.”
One doctor scoffed.
“And who are you?”
But the chief doctor didn’t laugh.
He leaned closer… looked again… and suddenly shouted:
“Run a micro-scan again—NOW!”
Seconds passed like hours.
Then a technician yelled:
“There’s something there! Tiny… almost transparent… it didn’t show before!”
The room froze.
“How did we miss it?” someone whispered.
Leo answered quietly:
“Because it’s thin… like plastic. I’ve seen things like that in trash.”
