Empty [Andley]

Prologue

01/March

It had been a long winter. Everyone said so. Nobody talked about why.

I suppose you couldn't blame them, but why wouldn't you talk about it? It wasn't some big secret, everyone knew. It was just the elephant in the room. If ever it was mentioned conversation would be politely changed.

It had started when the leaves began to fall, and the crisp Autumn winds picked up. It was then that the peculiar thing started happening.

People started dying.

Now, I know this may not seem strange to you, but a hundred people dying of an unknown intestional disease at exactly the same time is a bit odd, wouldn't you say? The victims weren't even conected to eachother. No trace of any conection that could have caused this disease.

And it wasn't just them. Every month scince October, exactly a hundred more unrelated people would die at exactly the same time, with exactly the same symptoms as eachother and those before them. Overall, that totals to six hundred people; and we don't even know what happened to them.

But now, now we will know. I am going to find out for my self what happened. And I am going to cure it. Maybe it's a dumb idea to test on orphan imortals I got off the black market, but desperate times call for desperate mesures.

And right now, I need to save humanity.