Fifteen
Truth and ConsequencesThree weeks after the newly mutated virus' first casualty, we'd learned one more inhabitant succumbed to the illness. There were others who were sick, but who and how many was also a mystery. With most people distancing themselves, isolating in their rooms, some even refusing to work, it was easy to lose count of who was well and who wasn't. Winter was proving longer than I could ever have imagined. The world in which I lived grew smaller with each passing day as the Butterfly Flu lurked in the shadows, and I wondered who would be its next victim. I had to escape from behind closed doors and the ramblings in my head. And I had to understand the toll this mutation took on our community. Thanks to Jasmy and the information she'd overheard, I had an idea where
