Taylor doing war crimes

One of the Fae, I spent a little more time on. I scanned his body with Amy's power, looking for weaknesses in the immune system, and it only took ten minutes to come up with a thing of beauty, a virus that would kill 99.999% of hosts, but only five days after infection. It wouldn't affect human beings at all, and it wouldn't even do much to insect life. Normally, a disease that killed so many would burn itself out; in earlier periods of history it was likely that there had been epidemics that had simply killed all the people in a single tribe or a single village and had then been unable to reproduce.

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Starting at five hundred wouldn't be enough, so I started the grim work of finding Fae in every city I'd learned of, scanning their minds for places I didn't know about, and making sure to infect at least ten Fae for every city of five thousand. I was able to work in a hundred cities at the same time, and I focused on Fae who other Fae knew to be more gregarious than usual, the ones who would visit as many of their comrades as possible.

With a little luck, they'd start falling ill during the time of convergence or a couple of days afterward.

I paused at three in the morning, and I wondered if my ordinary self would feel terrible about committing an act of genocide. There were people who frowned on that kind of thing, and frowned on the concept of total war and on biological warfare.

Of course, those people weren't dealing with an existential threat.

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Grim