What if?
They were right to be afraid. All these years. The Men. It was as if they had foreseen The Epidemic. Nature is cruel in Her Justice and surely they must have known — She would never let their sins go unpunished.
It started slowly at first. Subtlely. Congenital anomalies in a certain population but still under the radar of most researchers. By the time they were paying attention, it was too…