Intentional or not, once the bug was released, there had been no way to recall it. Much of London’s historical legacy had been destroyed when the uncontrolled organism had devoured the city’s paper and wood. The panic riots that had followed had devastated the city, vandalizing its present and almost completely devouring its past. The spirit of London’s people had failed as well, the dreams of leading a new Europe dying in the mouldering aftermath.