Then, with a jolt, she hears the words in her head: Catabasis for the Masses. Shit, she hadn’t really acknowledged the second part. Catabasis, yes, fair enough, here we are. But none of this is for the masses. Is everyone going on this journey into death, in Lönnrot’s perception? Should she be looking for a gas attack? A biological weapon? Orpheus came home, but Eurydice did not: should she be worrying about something that targets two X chromosomes? Or is it just a brute 50 per cent kill rate?