Yeah, it's standard practice to scan for it at every medical visit, but it's kinda pointless at birth. [ Andyr shrugs. There isn't really a choice to it. In his country, at least, the health department had proclaimed the population in a state of medical emergency, and all KN hosts obligated to report to state hospitals 'tests' and 'blood donation'. That was fifty years ago. The laws been taken a bit far since from there, since. ] Most of the time, a dormant KN gene'll go completely under the radar. It's after it's activated that they start picking it up.

[ Not that it's terribly easy to hide once it does activate. There's physical changes immediately. Iris discoloration, like the specks of bizarre purple in the blue of Andyr's eyes, growth spurts, the sudden shock of it to the body sometimes causing aches and pains, looking like illness. Like his sister'd had.

They'd made the mistake of taking her in to a clinic for it, before they realized what it was. Andyr was lucky in that his came later. ]

Mine activated at 12, so Dad stopped taking me to normal doctors. I didn't really get sick like most people anyway. [ took a few days out, here and there, to call sick days that were really just him and his dad eating pancakes and going out on the boat. ] But I had to start wearing blue contacts all the time, pretend I hurt more than I did, that I'm not as strong as I am.