When I first heard of the ten percent, I thought they meant the one percent. They told me I was nothing special, simply one in ten of the worlds population who had gotten unlucky at the slots. I told them they were right, I was completely unremarkable, and they must have made a mistake.

Seems that we were both wrong.

I doubt that anyone ten days ago would’ve guessed that the ten percent I’ve been lumped into would ever exist. Or that it would be much more important than the one percent I had mistaken the government for mentioning. Who would’ve guessed that an entire fraction of mankind – a fraction that could be killed by the CSB virus – would disappear off the face of the Earth within the space of a mere five months.

For those who aren’t familiar with the origins of the CSB virus, it began as a rare strain of the Epstein-Barr virus; one might say a mutation gone wrong in the evolutionary ladder. The misstep being it only kills a tenth of those infected after five months while the other nine tenths freely spread the contingent around as asymptomatic carriers. Just like Typhoid Mary, except with the majority of the population.

Anyways, the Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, is a virus that is shown to be intertwined with mankind. Ever since it’s discovery in 1964 by Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr, scientists have released studies on how almost 95% of all adults have already been infected with the EBV.

As of ten days ago the EBV was known for having almost no symptoms in adolescents and only irritating ones in adults.

As of ten days ago the virus itself was never lethal, it simply allowed other diseases to do the dirty work as it hammered away at the human body.

As of ten days ago.

Today EBV is commonly known as the Lilith to the recent abomination that stalks a tenth of the world’s population with the stealth of a shadow and the speed of a wildfire. As incredible as this virus may be, all stories have their beginnings, and as surely as Lilith has hers, the CSB virus has a beginning too.

The CSB virus was first discovered in the Highlands of Scotland by a group of students in a small college town, but since then has quickly and silently spread worldwide. As it often is in science, they were found the CSB while looking for something else.

I have spent plenty of time thinking about how it could have been stopped from spreading, but since only one-in-ten would eventually die from the new strain, I have come to realize that there was no way to even recognize it for what it is before it reached five months on its first victims.

It became worldwide in eight months.

When it was unveiled as a deadly virus to the public, the horrified world turned to its origin point for a name and explanation. The Scottish government responded to the public with an official statement saying it had no idea about how the virus came to be, but kindly continued in supplying the world with not one, but two names: “Cu-Sith’s Bay” for the virus and “The Fey” for those doomed to die.

Unlike my fellows that make up the other 99.9% of the Fey, I seem to be the only one people are worried about, the only one qualified for quarantine, the only one that rebels and terrorists spend all their time working on how to release upon the world as a human bioweapon. My DNA contains a skeleton key to the immunity of the 90%. It has run through my blood since my birth, but only in this time of plague it has become apparent.

Out of all of the billions of people in the world, I, James Mathias Lark, have the Juggernaut Gene.