Regeneration (The Incubation Trilogy Book 3) by Laura DiSilverio

Author:Laura DiSilverio [DiSilverio, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: diAgio Publishing
Published: 2016-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Entering the lab six minutes later, I spot Dr. Ronan removing test tubes from a centrifuge and hurry to him. A technician works at the back counter, but no one else is there. The atmosphere is normal, not tense like it would be if Idris’s troops were hiding under the counters, waiting to detain me. With any luck, Jereth’s body hasn’t been discovered yet, although that’s unlikely with so many people ill. I hurry toward Dr. Ronan, who glares from under his poky eyebrows, and says, “Where the hell—”

“In the cold room. Now,” I say, taking him by the upper arm and hustling him toward the walk-in unit. His lab coat crinkles under my fingers and his arm is surprisingly muscular underneath. After one sidelong look at me, he keeps pace, and doesn’t expostulate when I close the door.

“Tell me,” he says.

“We only have a few minutes, so listen.” The room’s chill penetrates as I run through what Wyck and I discovered, going into as much detail as possible about Jereth’s viro-weapon.

Dr. Ronan puffs his cheeks out and expels air sharply. “That weasel used my laboratory—my lab—to perpetrate such an abomination—” He stops himself, undoubtedly recognizing that time is short. He looks into the middle distance over my shoulder for a too-long moment, and then his gaze snaps back to mine. His sharp blue eyes could belong to a forty-year-old, rather than a man who’s well past his ninetieth birthday. “It’s got to be the DNA coding for the yellow eyes,” he says. “That’s the only piece of DNA that would reliably be unique to every geneborn. That’s what the virus targets, what activates the rabies.”

I had already reached the same conclusion, but it’s reassuring to hear him verbalize it. “That’s what I think, too. We need to develop a process that excises that bit of coding, that removes the marker.” Then, even if the Defiance manages to disseminate the virus widely, it won’t ever turn on, like a missile that never identifies its target and so falls to the ground, a harmless dud.

He scrubs a gnarled hand up and down his cheek. “The science is simple. The hard part is—”

“—removing the marker from all the geneborns before Idris deploys his weapon. It may already be out there.” The thought makes me want to heave, and I worry that I’m coming down with the food poisoning that’s leveled more than half the compound. I don’t have time to be sick. “That’s why you need to go to Atlanta. You need to make contact with Minister Alden, and work with her scientists to develop the process.” I talk faster when he starts to interrupt. “She’s got the power and the resources to get it into mass production quickly, to harness the government’s communications apparatus to let the geneborns know that the situation is dire. Maybe you’ll get to see Minister Fonner again since he’s in charge of the Ministry of Information,” I say with a wisp of humor. The former Supervising Proctor and Dr.

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