“Okay students, today we are going to discuss the history of Us. Do any of you think you know the history of Zombiesapiens? Yes, Blanch?”

“Our ancestors crawled out of the ocean, learned to use tools and became smarter. They built big things and explored big things, like space flight. When they saw all that they could see Outside, they started exploring Inside. They focused on genes, cells, microbes, viruses, all the things that lived in their Interspaces—

“Good. Achilles, what happened next?”

’Um, it had something to do with The Clean Years and um, something about Eight Days of Hate?"

“Not quite. Lockwood, what’s Achilles trying to tell us, you wrote a report on this.”

“Healthy Homosapiens became sick & crazy. It was tetanus. It had nothing to do with rust. Suddenly, within weeks, billions of people became infected with a new strain of Neurological Tetanus. Now, we’re all born carriers. Only eleven percent of us live past eight days, WE are the living dead.’

“Thank you for that Lockwood.”