PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"They turned into dust. A fine, violet particulate that rained down across the Southern Hemisphere for three days. It fell on Arusha. It fell on Mbeya. It fell on Dar es Salaam."
He held up his hand. Above his palm, a small sphere of violet gravity formed, swirling like a miniature galaxy.
"We breathed it in. We drank it in the water. It entered the lungs of every man, woman, and child in Tanzania. But it wasn't dust, Baraka. It was code."
"Code?" I asked.
"A retroviral rewrite," Eliana whispered, her eyes widening as the scientific realization hit her. "An extraterrestrial mutagen. Like a CRISPR sequence, but... planetary."