The Vienna International Congress Center was a temple to human knowledge, a sprawling complex of glass and steel buzzing with the collective intellect of thousands. For the delegates of the Global Summit on Emerging Pathogens, it was a week of collaboration and competition, of presenting breakthroughs and guarding secrets. For the three members of Lupus Haven moving through its brightly lit halls, it was a hunting ground.
They were impeccably disguised. Not with prosthetics or Hollywood magic, but with the more potent camouflage of context. Dr. Kael Fenris was Dr. Henrik Vogler, a reclusive but brilliant epidemiologist from a minor Swiss institute, his Alpha intensity softened by a tweed jacket and spectacles. Dr. Selene Vark was Dr. Sabine Krause, a sharp-tongued public health logisticia
