Grace walked out of the restaurant’s back door and got into her car. She didn’t really understand what she was doing or why she was doing it. All she knew for sure was that she must obey the strange impulses going through her mind. The woman wiped her mouth for the hundredth time, trying to brush away Kayla’s saliva, but succeeding only in irritating her lips. She drove across town to the lake that was the source of Cox County’s drinking water.
She walked to the 20-foot-high chain-link fence that surrounded the lake to keep unwanted people out. Carefully, she touched one of the metal links. A zap hurt her finger. She frowned at her burned digit, wondering how she would get inside. She glanced up at the top of the fence and spied a video camera. She had little time before someone spotted her.
First, Grace needed to kill the current. She found the power box that supplied the fence’s electricity, secured with only a simple padlock. She walked back to her car to get a hammer. She put her fingers between the shackles and pulled them away from the body of the lock. Then she hit the weak point repeatedly, often slipping and hitting her fingers instead. About a minute later, the lock broke and Grace opened the panel door. She shut off the fence’s electricity, then went to work on the main gate’s padlock. Just as before, she broke the lock. Her fingers were bloody and broken, but she took no notice.
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She reached the lake and fell on her knees on the bank. Bending over, she spat a huge glob of saliva into the water. Streams of alien DNA entered the lake and searched for new hosts—bacteria, this time. These creatures weren’t perfect but, like the amoeba, they were simple and had the benefit of numbers. They could easily be changed to get past the water treatment plant’s chemical and filtration systems.
Grace smiled, her work done. She got back into her car, ignoring the scorching heat. She didn’t bother rolling down the windows or turning on the air conditioning.
When the police arrived over an hour later, the woman was quite dead.