Some small town in Asia.
The summer sun beat down on Rachel as she walked down the street. It had been three weeks, she had traveled throughout Asia and Africa seeing the virus kill many. The government of the counties affected would say that it was contained, but this was a lie. She tried to convince the government to send her to the Arctic but they wanted proof, they wanted to know it was worth it. She walked to a coffee house as she thought about the troubles and sickness she had encountered over the past weeks. She had fine got in contact with Chang, a man who could give her proof. She opened the door to the coffee house an iced coffee and cool her off.
After getting her coffee she sat and hoped that Chang would recognize her, he had said that they once meet at a conferences. A young man walked in, she knew from the look he gave her he was Chang.
She stood and greeted him. "Hello."
He nodded his head and sat down "Hello." He took out a book and set it on the table.
"Do you want anything" She pointed to her coffee
Chang shook his head saying no "I can't be too long." he pushed the book to her. "This is all my research."
She took it and began to leaf though it. "Can you tell me a little bit about your project?" She looked up from her reading.
He sighed "Most of it is in there." He looked at her and knew that she wanted to hear it from him. "I was working to insure my people could win a war if it came to that." He shook his head. "We dug all over for any weapon that we could use, my people and I were to use bio warfare."
Rachel sat back, crossing her arms over her chest. "And you found something?" She knew the truth, but she wanted him to say it, she wanted him to suffer.
He dropped his voice and moved closer. "Yes." His eyes were planted on the floor. "We went digging in the Arctic, I had read that birds would come there and make people sick so I thought we had a good chance of finding something we could use." He looked her in the eye. "What we found was deadly and would spread easily. That is what made it so great for war."
Rachel knew this, she had found out about this a few days before "How did it get out, what happened."
"Someone stole it." He sighed not knowing what to say.
She took this in "Is there any of the sample left" she had hoped to see the virus.
He shook his head "no it's all gone." He looked down "This wasn't supposed to happen. This was a just in case, not to be use unless needed to win a war."
She griped her drink hoping to hide her shaking hands. "Well it did get out, and people are dying because of you and you project." She got up taking her coffee and the book. "At least with this book I can hope to fix this"
She left in a huff, the book in her hand would help get the U.S. government to help, but she didn't like Chang and what he and his people did.