The world celebrated. Howard Crane, the bioterrorist, the architect of the Ghost Fever, was a ghost. His empire was ashes, his name a global anathema. The news cycles, so long stamped with terror, now ran on a loop of triumph. The Kronos Facility video was the nail in his coffin, the final, grisly proof of his humanity. The manhunt was the largest in history, a globe-spanning dragnet cast for a ghost.
In Aegis Haven, they held a memorial service for Sarah Blake. Thousands were there, in person and via live-stream. They spoke of her courage, her obstinacy, her tireless pursuit of the truth. She was posthumously awarded every journalistic and humanitarian award the world had to give. She was a martyr, a hero.
Reuben came forward to the podium, the eyes of the world on him. He spoke the app
