The Gray Rot
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The Rot was rampant in the city, the gift of some alien animalcule very like a bacterium. This was not Lethe’s Sickness—not the great plague that would one day rock our galaxy—only another illness. The space lanes are lousy with such diseases, the colonies rife with invasive illnesses brought to new worlds by unscrupulous starmen.
Still, though it was not the lethovirus, it was brutal enough. It blackened skin and wasted flesh and hardened lymphs and lungs. The city prefects piled bodies in squares and burned them, and the smoke carried votive lanterns to a heaven that seemed deaf to all prayer. My own palatine blood defended me, but there was no defense from the horror of it.
Empire of Silence, Chapter 24: Those Mindless Days
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