Frannie was quiet while she rocked the baby on her shoulder. "It's strange, you saying that. It's a lot how we felt, the ones immune to the plague. All we could do was watch as our family, our friends, just got sicker and sicker while we stayed perfectly healthy."

Which was a more benign way of saying they stood helpless as the world died. Frannie gave a shudder and held her son tighter to her chest.