Day 1,071

Sometimes the unexpected arrives in the most mundane way. Tonight it arrives in the sound of a tap letting loose one final spurt of water into a sink full of three day old water. The house's lone occupant wouldn't notice the sound, not consciously at least, for several minutes.

Prior to those several minutes a few things happened.

1. An infected rat escaped from a private medicinal testing facility three miles away.
2. It fell down an open manhole cover, biting a workman in panic on its way down, passing on the contagion to a man who history will only know as Patient Zero.
3. Seeking the smallest space possible, it fled farther and farther in, gradually moving upwards.
4. It stopped moving like a normal rat and became something far more gelatinous.
5. Following the faint scent of food, it eventually made its way into a kitchen.
6. It fell out of a tap and into water that smelled like stale pasta.