Chapter 75

Anderson fully intended to keep trying. He wasn't a fucking stereotype, even if he was somehow doing the whole marriage-kids-saccharine family life thing he'd always thought wasn't for him. "So no one knows anything at all about why people are getting sick?"

Sean shook his head. "Nope. I've asked around a bit, but no one is even totally sure ol' Billy is ground zero, or whatever the term is. He's just the one people remember. Could have been a tourist, a passerby, somebody who's since died, anything. Doctors are working on it. They were even going to bring in alchemists last I heard."

"Surprised the Bureau isn't involved."

"I think they're trying to keep the government out of it as long as possible. You know how it is once they get involved."

Anderson grimaced. Yeah, he knew. "Once I might have been the agent they sent, if only because I know the area and have connections here."