A chance remained that immunity protected her. However, Megaira had said that no one could be resistant. Either death or transformation followed the initial exposure she had said. The chance that Nyx alone was impervious to the disease seemed unlikely. Yet she still indulged the thought as her body sank deeper into the water’s permeable cold. Maybe she was too different from the other humans, therefore, the prion could not infect her. She lived without barriers preventing her actions, and so the disease could not manifest itself, for she was already wild. Or maybe her past sealed away the
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