(Lexie)
I covered my mouth with my hand feeling sick. Kana turned away from me looking ashamed even though she didn't come up with the One in a Million plan.
"Lexie? Did you catch all of that?" I nodded my head then felt foolish for doing so because it was obvious she couldn't see me through the glass although I could see her.
"Can you, can you run me through that once more please?" I asked still horrified that a person or even a group of people can be so...so disgusted with our world that they would bring it to its knees. I understand the world we know is not perfect and day by day it gets worse but this. This was monstrous.
"The One in a Million plan, it's a plan to spread an airborne virus, G.E.M. is what they call it and well, it will penetrate the human system and it implants in multiple parts of your body at once. So there can't be any way to save the person. And the G.E.M. isn't like normal gasses that will just go away, these things are nuclear, they will stay airborne for at least a week. The G.E.M. will activate within the first 48 hours that the person has had it implanted in them. Then the signs that will determine if a person will survive or not will appear. The signs aren't random, these people will be chosen, they will get injected with vaccines or specific clouds of gases that will make them immune to the G.E.M.s dark side effects.
"Dark Side effects are easy to spot. They're similar to the Black Plage, dark spots under the skin that only get worse with time. The G.E.M. will work like a quicker version of cancer but it puts its victims in comas and eventually with all the suddenly reproducing cells filling up all the space in the body boom. A human time bomb. I don't know how long a person has 'til they, they you know, poof but I know it's not very long. But there are a couple people who might survive but they only have a one in a million percent chance to make it, hence the name of the plan. They will cut the Earth's population in half then half again and then divide that by thirds. Like out of a group of one hundred people, only eight will survive the attack with a possible .33% of one other person surviving. If the One in a Millionth person is there too then only ten survivors, some handpicked will be left. The creators of G.E.M. don't pick people out of how much they have done or can do for them but they look at a person's genes and if they have the lean body build in them that they want then it's in. If they have the color of eyes they like boom. Alive. Ideal anything? Bingo." Kana paused and then sighed looking about as disgusted as I felt.
"G.E.M. wants to build a 'perfect' Earth where people have 'evolved' from it's 'primitive ways'. Animals won't be affected by the G.E.M. so without the human G.E.M. hopes that they will thrive in the sudden absence of humans." I shook my head wanting to shake the shiver crawling down my spine off but it was there to stay.
(Kana)
I sighed, Lexie had left a while ago and I was left alone too(as alone as I can get here).
There was nothing in this room other than me but I couldn't shake it off. I could hear her hitched breathe the first time I told her about One in a Million.
I sat up and got on my feet feeling the need to punch something but what? Punching wall would hurt and hitting the floor would be as stupid as punching the wall.
I sat back down to think and then crossed my legs just like Momma and Lexie told me to. I put my hands in a resting position in my lap and closed my eyes and focused on my breathing. In through the nose for four and out through the mouth for five.
I kept my mind blank and focused on my breathing until I felt something and then-