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  • Parts 9
  • Time 59m
Ongoing, First published Mar 13, 2016
Mature
"In order to preserve the virus, you were placed into a new freezer like invention. It preserved your body while keeping you, and the virus, alive."
 "Why would you keep a deadly virus alive at the cost of people's lives?" I ask incredulously. Gunfire shatters the peaceful quiet and the conversation."
  
Faced with an important decision, what would you do? If the procedure is successful, you could change the world. If it's not, you will die. And even if you survive, will you change the world for better or for worse?
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