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The next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist
— Bill Gates, 2018
The first evidence of the impending apocalypse revealed itself on the BrainTrust through the absence of a number.
Chance studied the number on her tablet. “Where could it be?” she asked the universe in general.
Dash, who was examining wallscreens displaying the vitals for one of the rejuvenation patients on board the Chiron medical isle ship, asked distractedly, “Where could what be?”
“The CRISPIER we were using for this wing of our deck.” They were on the Wenara Wana Monkey Garden deck; all the passage walls and most of the walls of the patient rooms were decorated like the lush jungle forest that grew into and meshed with Ubud in Bali.
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