IT WAS KES WHO BROUGHT the medication to Chimera.
The colonists sheltering there were the last people to receive it. By then, the biocide had ravaged most of Lyonesse and turned it into a barren wasteland. No Concordian life forms remained alive. As far as anyone could tell, not a single microorganism lived in the soil or the ocean. The trees of every forest were dried skeletons of dead wood. The rest of the plant life had turned to brown husks. The animals lay dead upon the ground, unable even to rot and decay because not even the bacteria remained alive.
Only the humans and some of the Fila had survived. Not all of the humans had been protected by the vaccine. Out of every hundred that waited in dread as the biocide finally reached them, one or two would fall, killed instantly. There w
