Talk:Chaos Rising/@comment-218.250.198.236-20130619102640/@comment-4091815-20130619142142

Also - just from a physical point of view - Scott has show that he has to focus pretty intensely to hear a single heartbeat.

Even in Fireflies he had to lean up to the door and really listen.

That filtering out of other sounds isn't as easy as the sense of smell seems to be. That's a bit of a passive ability with the nose picking up everything and then sorting it out.

As Scott said this week he has to focus on not smelling everything he can all at once.

Kali's nose picked up something that was then overwhelmed by the ammonia - she did not investigate further and apparently didn't bother tuning her ears to hear a single heartbeat separate from her fellow Alphas or their prisoners.