"And that's the last one," Lucille said as she removed a squirming mouse from the cage on the floor and placed it into the small glass compartment it will live in for the next couple of days or weeks, depending on if it becomes infected with the virus. "There."
They were currently in one of the labs on the last floor of the building and there were twenty one glass compartments that contained mice and soil samples on the stainless steel tables that were in the middle of the room. The compartments were numbered according to the markers they had kept in the forest and they had used all the samples they collected because they suspected that the virus had spread from where the bottle was picked.
Imani had collected the bottle from the girl after she recognized it and, sure enough, the biohazard symbol was on its top and bottom along with an inscription that read 'OMR'. Imani had been distressed but had calmly asked the girl where she got the bottle as she showed it to Lucille.
