The rain over Geneva was the kind that didn’t clean the streets, just smeared the grime around. Inside the sterile, humming corridors of the World Health Organization’s backup data facility, Dr. Aris Thorne stared at the old filing cabinet. It was marked with a faded orange biohazard sticker and the code: .
Kateryna’s final entry was dated October 31, 1996.
The date was 1996. The location: A remote children’s sanatorium in the Pripet Marshes, Ukraine, just fifty kilometers from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.