*Leah begins to dig through an old library, looking for some old newspaper clippings. She finds one from a New York Times article dating some decades past, talking about an infection spreading through the insect world, wiping out entire species off the map. She grins slightly and tilts her head delicately to the right as she first slumps, bending her knees greatly so then they are parallel to the ground, and then sits down, her legs sprawl before her, as she continues reading the article. At first, she thought that this might finally be the first clue she was looking for, the precursor to the virus that spread so virulently, leading to the compound destruction that humanity had already started by the time the virus first struck, but she found an inconsistency with the known effects of the zombie virus. The disease mentioned in the article had the effects of completely eliminating the skin of the infected, leaving them to die through fluid loss and environmental exposure; but the zombie virus never had the effect of eliminating the skin, nor any of the primary protective layers. In fact, it supposedly, according to a few scattered lab reports that didn't need to be burnt from the old laboratories of Boston because of blood contamination, had a calcifying effect on the skin in its later forms, but sadly, too many details of how such an effect could occur are long lost, so the only proper conclusion is to keep skepticism alive. That, and they fall too easily to those knowledgeable to their weaknesses anyways.*
*She thus arises again, patting her knees gently with a downwards motion from her hands as she finishes her rise, and looks around her before heading towards the nearby stairway. She hears some ruckus outside, and looks out the window. She finds a boy, one she had never seen before, fighting off some zombies with a sword that looked familiar, perhaps a high frequency one. Interesting... most people who live here don't bother fighting anymore, and instead know of many networks underneath the city that they use to eliminate most of the threat all together. Problem is that lately these networks have had too many vulnerabilities, and thus many deaths of late have occurred, and one of the most vulnerable was the one leading from the library to the garden. And that's the only way to leave the library. And now some odd boy is fighting numerous zombies over the passageway. She sighs and clasps her left pointer finger and thumb over the bridge of her nose and closes her eyes. Her problems seem to always compound and never disappear. Such is the life of a modern archeologist though, and she knew the risks before following in her uncles footsteps.*