๏ผท๏ผจ๏ผฅ๏ผฎ ๏ผด๏ผจ๏ผฅ ๏ผฉ๏ผฌ๏ผฌ๏ผฎ๏ผฅ๏ผณ๏ผณ
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first began to make headlines, not many of us seemed to take notice. This 'New Plague', as the news anchors called it, was a world away - it was 'so sad', yes, but we went about our lives without much hesitation. It seemed every year, the media would take something like this and just blow it out of proportion. Why would we stop and treat this endemic any different?
โง โง โง
The illness ravaged the nations it had appeared in, and within months, was spreading like wildfire. Out of control, raging and burning through everything it touched. When the first citizen of our little nation succumbed, the panic began. We had seen how it had destroyed the wealthier nations before us, how once-healthy and fit young people had withered away. The medical and scientific communities were scrambling, trying to find some miracle cure - but they were dying too. Everyone was dying; the illness was airborne and none seemed able to escape it.
โง โง โง
The exception being yourself. For some unknown, twisted and painful reason, you recovered while the other ninety-nine percent had died. You were weak when you first woke, coming out of the scorching fever, but within hours you felt... different. Incredibly and inexplicably different. Perhaps you were stronger. It wasn't like the movies, where the genetically-altered super hero would stop a train and save the day, but you could now do more than you had ever done before. Maybe you noticed things that, prior to the fever, you never would have noted before. These 'little enhancements' perhaps scared you as much as they amazed you. Or maybe you felt more powerful and in control than ever before. Either way, you were still very much alone.
โง โง โง
After five months, ninety-nine of the population of our sleepy little nation was gone, burned up and buried in the ground. You found yourself wandering, perhaps - or maybe you began to build a new nation from the ashes of the one that choked before you. All you knew was this - you're alive, and better than ever before - and you plan on being around much, much longer.
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first began to make headlines, not many of us seemed to take notice. This 'New Plague', as the news anchors called it, was a world away - it was 'so sad', yes, but we went about our lives without much hesitation. It seemed every year, the media would take something like this and just blow it out of proportion. Why would we stop and treat this endemic any different?
โง โง โง
The illness ravaged the nations it had appeared in, and within months, was spreading like wildfire. Out of control, raging and burning through everything it touched. When the first citizen of our little nation succumbed, the panic began. We had seen how it had destroyed the wealthier nations before us, how once-healthy and fit young people had withered away. The medical and scientific communities were scrambling, trying to find some miracle cure - but they were dying too. Everyone was dying; the illness was airborne and none seemed able to escape it.
โง โง โง
The exception being yourself. For some unknown, twisted and painful reason, you recovered while the other ninety-nine percent had died. You were weak when you first woke, coming out of the scorching fever, but within hours you felt... different. Incredibly and inexplicably different. Perhaps you were stronger. It wasn't like the movies, where the genetically-altered super hero would stop a train and save the day, but you could now do more than you had ever done before. Maybe you noticed things that, prior to the fever, you never would have noted before. These 'little enhancements' perhaps scared you as much as they amazed you. Or maybe you felt more powerful and in control than ever before. Either way, you were still very much alone.
โง โง โง
After five months, ninety-nine of the population of our sleepy little nation was gone, burned up and buried in the ground. You found yourself wandering, perhaps - or maybe you began to build a new nation from the ashes of the one that choked before you. All you knew was this - you're alive, and better than ever before - and you plan on being around much, much longer.
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