Two years, it had been two years since the mutations were determined to be an international emergency. It had begun in the zoos, then to domestic animals, until it was being seen in almost every living creature that could move. From mice to elephants, the horror began. Extra limbs, too many teeth, bones growing and breaking through the skin.

As you walked through the abandoned mall, there was the sound of a rat scattering around somewhere. The low click and squeaks accompanied by the sound of eight legs moving in tandem. On the ceiling a few yards away you could see a large bat sleeping. A large scar on its snout— an indication that at one point, its snout hadn’t been as long as it now was.