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gear. One of them addressed him through a black face shield.
    “This is the end of the trail for you, buddy. Get up. Hands on your head.”  
    “But, wait, you can’t—” Donovan pleaded.  
    He stole an instinctive glance at the building and thought he saw a shape fade from one of the windows. Cathren?
    Donovan jumped to his feet in one last, desperate attempt to save her—but the gun barrel rammed into his groin put an end to any further heroics.
    Donovan’s head spun. He couldn’t focus. He suffered from blurred vision, aching nuts, and his cramped position. Then the explosions roared.  
    One. Two. Three.  
    Men shouted, then more explosions.  
    Four. Five. Six.  
    The seventh boomed somewhere behind him, very close by.
    “Fuck this,” Donovan said.  
    He got up on one knee, and then—slow and easy—forced himself to stand up. He turned around to look, hands on his head, fingers intertwined.
    “Cathren!” he shouted against the roar of the fire and the hysteria of the hordes. He took a step and then collapsed in pain.  
    Though weak, disoriented, and dizzy, he continued to search for her just the same.
    She was gone. And maybe for good.

Chapter 12

    Welcome back. I’m Zoë Krant and you’re watching Investigation Nation. Now, for our exclusive interview.  
    Burkart Egesa, welcome.
    Thanks for having me, Zoë.
    Now what’s this about our local water supply being contaminated, courtesy of ATELIC Industries?
      I think there’s been some confusion, and frankly, hysteria on this topic.
    But, Dr. Egesa, a powerful reanimation solution contaminated the water. You’ve admitted as much to the press earlier this week.
    Yes, of course. But is it dangerous? That’s always been my assertion: the solution leaked into the aquifer, yes. But is that bad? Look, this is a solution successfully proven to ‘awaken’ dead heads. It’s a powerful life-giving force.
    Yes, but people drink these chemicals. From their kitchen tap, from swimming in lakes and ponds and ingesting a bit unintentionally here and there. From bathing in it.  
    True, Zoë. But if you knew anything about water treatment plants, you’d know they put many, many chemicals in your drinking water. Chlorine. Ammonia. Sulfur. As well as sodium, calcium, magnesium, and fluoride. Actually there are over 2,000 trace elements in tap water. A lot of the substances ejected out of ATELIC turned out to be, in fact, quite common. The same used in soaps, shampoos, and cosmetics. I’m talking about chemicals such as propylene glycol, sodium lauryl sulfate, bentonite, propylene glycol, and diethanolamine. Which is why the leak went undetected in our water system for so long, both by the local officials and by us at ATELIC.  
    Dr. Egesa, I believe you are being a bit evasive here with your list of chemicals. The truth is, the chemicals coming into the aquifer from ATELIC’s lab were chemicals which were either never tested or only allowed in very, very low concentrations. Something like one part per billion.  
    The difference here is in the ratio, Zoë. For example, you’re fine with H2O, one part hydrogen and two parts oxygen which is water, of course. But mess around with that ratio, say HO2, you have hydrogen peroxide. Not something you’d necessarily consider a thirst quencher.  
    Hmmmm, no.
    Yet in chemical makeup it’s not far off from water. I believe what we were ultimately pumping into the drinking water here in San Francisco, truly, was also not far off from water itself.  
    Well, there you have it. Burkhart Egesa’s cocktail, a potent mix of both dangerous and benign chemicals. Blended in a particular combination, in certain concentrations, and seeped slowly throughout the entire system, drip by drip over time. What you have is a population saturated with a chemical bath proven to wake the dead.  
    I’m Zoë Krant. We’ll be right back, with more from the founder and CEO of ATELIC Industries.

Chapter 13

    Donovan got out of jail the