Today the other scientists were very productive. Stone had isolated the pathogen on the satellite, and begun cultures of the organism. Burton had figured out that stopping clotting does not prevent death. I have been able to get nowhere: the baby is perfectly normal. That's all there is to it, the baby is normal and it survived. But how is the question. How did a perfectly normal baby and a old man with too much acid in his blood survive? What do they share in common?
I went into the room with the old man and the baby inside, and I found something. The man was awake! He said he was Peter Jackson, and was a bit confused. He also explained why he had health problems. He had an untreated stomach ulcer, which explains the loss of blood. And to deal with the pain, he took aspirin, and, of all things, drank Sterno, which is basically oil. No wonder his blood was so acidic.
-Hall
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