Pranthi read the paper spread across her legs in the hospital bed. The Journal put Pranthi's pictures on the front page. Her photos weren't just in the local news, but went across the globe. The first reaction to the story had been compassion and horror. The second had been to blame the news people. Neither the pilot nor the videographer admitted to seeing people falling off the buildings until it was too late to stop it. Who'd expect a helicopter flying overhead to turn rational people into mythical lemmings? Pranthi wouldn't have believed it if the urge to run and jump hadn't invaded her too. What she remembered of Jack's attempt at flight wasn't horror but envy. There, but for a pair of crippled legs, went her.
The third reaction to the disaster was to quarantine the entire city. All t
