durendal

I have been studying the samples provided to me by Ashlyn Silvermane, and almost by accident, I believe I have stumbled upon an answer.

From the start, I have been approaching Red Lung from a traditional academic standpoint. Investigate the disease’s symptoms, pinpoint a source, and remove it without causing harm to the victim.

At every turn, Red Lung bedeviled me in this. A disease that affects such a specific demographic, that incubates for 17 years, that defies all attempts at classification…

No known disease behaves this way.

Thus… what if Red Lung is not a disease at all?

But if so, what the devil is it?

I was trimming my claws, and reflecting on the changes Chimera had wrought in my body, when the answer hit me. It’s been right under my snout the whole time.

Red Lung isn’t a natural disease. It’s artificial. In developing Chimera, Elizabeth Blackthorne didn’t create a bioweapon- she improved one that already existed.

At the time, I had thought Blackthorne to be a genius. But with this knowledge in hand, much of her work on Chimera seems… premeditated. As if she’d worked with the Red Lung virus before.

I wonder… is it possible that somehow, Elizabeth Blackthorne knew about Red Lung before she discovered my classified research?

And if so… who told her?