“My parents tried to raise me Catholic for a while,” he said at last. “That’s not…I mean that’s still weird, Curtis.”
“Oh.” He sighed. “Get off the road here, I think we went west enough.”
He got quiet after that, but Lyndon was not satisfied. There was still so much from Curtis’ story he didn’t feel was clear enough, and he still didn’t know where they were going.
“So now I’m vaccinated,” he said.
“Yeah, but it’s not going to be effective for a couple weeks, so…just be careful, okay?”
“And this outbreak you keep getting upset over on the news is the virus?”
“It’s a bacteria, actually,” said Curtis. “But yes. When I saw people were coming down with it—it looked exactly like what we made the vaccine for. People shouldn’t be getting it. I thought…something’s wrong. How did it get out?
