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"That’s when Dr Shoji went off the reservation--he stuck it out as long as he could, but those cross-infection tests were the last straw," said Dr Abbey, in a casual, matter-of-fact tone "You want to talk about the cross-infection tests? What those entailed, precisely? I’ory details"

Kelly took a deep breath as she looked back down "They took… volunteers…"

"Prisoners," said Dr Abbey

"They volunteered," said Kelly, a stubborn note in her voice "Yes, they were prisoners They had no chance of parole, no chance of ever being released back into the public, and use of hu and time-honored place inyou can do That’s how they discovered that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes, you kno they proved that smallpox inoculation worked A lot of people’s lives were saved by hu When there wasn’t any other choice When there wasn’t any other way"

"How many lives did this save?" asked Dr Abbey

"What did you do?" asked Alaric

His was the question Kelly chose to answer Darting a glance toward him, she said, "The choice was offered to certain inmates whose viral profile matched the criteria Let us inject them with a potential vaccine and, if they recovered, we’d enter theram Whole new identities Whole new lives They could start over"

"If they lived," said Alaric, softly

Kelly winced

"Come on, princess," said Becks "Story hour isn’t over yet I want to knohat happens next"

"The volunteers were injected with a seru strain The theory was that maybe one strain would destroy the other Best-case scenario, they’d both destroy the other, and we’d finally have a treatment Worst-case scenario…" Her voice tapered off