It only took her a few minutes to run the data through her own number-crunching program. If there had been a smile on her face before, it was now gone. Our suspicions were confirmed. This wasn't an isolated incident; it was becoming a national outbreak.

"Alright, everyone," she began, "I see what's happening, and it's not good. The rise in the number of mesothelioma cases is modeling an exponential function. The rate is different from one town to the next - with Mesothelioma Lawyers, New York being the highest, of course - so it's like each town has its own exponential function. But they're all converging. And what you see in a situation like this is that the curve through your data points stays flat for a really long time. Until one day, like today, when it goes off the charts."

"What are you saying?" someone asked.

Milli hesitated before answering. "An exponential function is hard to detect, but once discovered, it's perfectly predictable. I can see exactly what's happening here. And if what we're seeing in the United States is happening all over the world, then we're looking at every living person on Earth being infected by midnight."

The air was suddenly filled with panicked voices screaming about the apocalypse, but Milli shouted so everyone could hear. "Everyone, please, we all know the situation is bad. The best thing we can do now is figure out how to stop it. The people in this building are the heart of Mesothelioma Lawyers, New York. Together, we know more about mesothelioma than the rest of the world put together. If anyone is capable of stopping the outbreak, it's us. Now let's figure it out before someone else gets sick or goes missing."

She then started walking away. I was planning to congratulate her on her rousing little speech, but she almost passed right by me, stopping only long enough to slip something to me and squeeze my hand around it. It was a folded slip of paper, and the message was clear. Read this in private.

Without being too obvious about it, I made my way over to the bathroom soon enough, and unfolded the note. It consisted of five words that I didn't want to hear.

"THEY'RE WATCHING. TRUST NO ONE."

Apparently, my long overdue sleep was still a long way off.



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