Mark and Lizzy looked at the screen for a minute, waiting for something to happen.
“Are we supposed to do it now?” Lizzy asked, frowning at the screen.
Mark looked in the sheet again. “It just says open your computer and use the link.”
“Hello,” she said to the screen. “Anyone there?”
The host’s window showed that the image had started to upload. Someone was joining the meeting. Finally, the saw a pixelated image of an old black woman in a room with white empty walls. She was saying something, but there was no sound. Mark pointed to the screen, to microphone symbol that was crossed by a red line.
“Your microphone is off,” Lizzy said.
The woman jerked and looked at her screen.
“Oh, my goodness,” they heard her cheery voice. “Is it working now? Can you hear me?”
“Yes, we can,” Lizzy said.
“Good, I’m still getting used to these bells and whistles27,” the lady said smiling. “What happened to the good old face-to-face, right?”
Mark and Lizzy both nodded, agreeing.
“Anyway, Lizzy and Mark how you are kids doing?”
Lizzy and Mark looked at each other. “We’re fine,” Lizzy said.
“Oh, good,” the lady. “My name is Yana and I have a lot to tell you today. So, get comfortable.”
***
Next day, Lizzy woke up early in the morning and was surprised to realize that she actually slept for a few hours. She felt reinvigorated28, but there was a feeling that she forgot something important. She looked at Mark who was sleeping peacefully at her side and got up.
She decided to do some yoga, something that she hadn’t done since the day her life dramatically changed a couple months ago. It seemed that the body remembered all the asanas to make the brain and the muscles relax. She was doing the exercises in her underwear and felt the sunbeams on her skin. It felt great. After a quick shower, she was sitting in the kitchen with a cup of coffee reading what Yana had sent after the meeting.
It was a file with the name of the people that were connected to Dolion and who were supposed to be actively involved in the virus distribution. According to Yana, they had the virus, its original variant. Dolion called it Potestas Dei (Power of God). It was very surprising to learn about that because Lizzy and Mark were under the impression that they had destroyed the virus.