Layers.
This is the Krank layer.
Layer 1: Krank
Lisa sniffled.
It was nothing unusual, but it was her tenth sniffle under a minute.
She was sniffling since she awoke from that strange dream.
"Lucy and Lana digging down to hell? What nonsense," she talked to herself, sounding annoyed because of the sniffles.
Felling thirsty, she took a sip from a soda bottle she had taken to her room. Opening it and taking a sip, she spit it out immediately.
"What is this bilious sensation on my taste buds?!"
She sniffed at the soda, reeling back at terrible stench that was omitting from it. "Is this a bad jest from Luan?"
Out of curiosity, she put some of the fluid in the bottle under the microscope and looked closer at it. Her eyes then widened in surprise.
"How… These are strains of the… The Dengue?!"
Lisa took a few steps back. It couldn't be. There was no way her soda could suddenly be full of strain of the Dengue virus. Or that it would taste so terrible because of it.
"I need to call a hospital and alert the CDC as quickly as possible."
Lisa grabbed her cellphone without looking, but immediately retracted her hand. As she touched the chassis of her telecommunications device, she only felt a fluid hot substance. Her smartphone was oozing hot semi-fluid wax out of the few openings of her little flat screen. Scared, she dropped it to the ground and took a few deep breaths.
"I can't risk contaminating the others. I have to retreat to my private bunker and self-isolate myself."
Lisa's breathing became very heavy. She feared for not only her life, but also for the lives of her family. Sending out her drones to see the best path to her bunker, she also put on her hazmat suit. Not the slightest pore, salvia or scale was allowed to stay behind.
As she left, she hermetically sealed her and Lily's room and was on her way out when her legs gave up. Specifically, they broke off from her body and Lisa fell down the stairs. Every single impact hurt, but not as much as the sudden loss of her legs. As she landed on the floor, she was barely able to move. She knew how the weight of her now broken feet would make dragging her body out of the house pretty difficult.
"My legs… This isn't… No virus can do that!"
Lisa was hyperventilating and in panic now. She hoped that this would be turn out to be a dream or a hallucination. She tried to remember which drugs and viruses caused hallucinations when her eyes fell out of her sockets.
Lisa was too shocked to say anything. That her tongue was melting in her mouth right now didn't help matters.
The young Nobel Prize winner wailed in horror. The fact that she didn't feel any pain was not improving her situation. She wanted to scream, but no tone could escape her mouth anymore.
The little four-year old started to melt into a goop of her own flesh, skin, hair, bone, blood and more. Yet, the scariest thing was not the way the virus was destroying her body.
The scariest thing was that Lisa was still alive.
The goop that was Lisa wailed around, trying to shout for help but it couldn't.
Lisa had no mouth and she wanted to scream.
"Did you hear something?"
Lucy looked up from the book. "Heard what?"
"I think somebody screamed," said Lana. "I think it came from the house."
"Lori can take care of that," said Lucy dismissively. "Concentrate on digging down."
"It sounded serious," Lana frowned. "At least, I think it was serious."
Lucy looked over to the house. "If it was so serious, somebody will come over to help. We, on the other hand, can't stop here if we want to rescue Charles."
Lana wanted to disagree but finally shrugged. "Okay, Lucy. I may have imagined it anyway."
Layer 1: Krank has ended. 7 more layers await our two heroines.
Your body is healthy.