Even though Shizuko (Surly Girly) is a healer, she couldn't save her sister and parents. One of a kind and wanted by corporate powers, she lives in hiding and makes friends with kids her own age through the internet.

When a respiratory virus spreads through out the world and threatens to kill her best online friend Layla, Shizuko and her guardian Tru pack up the van and drive out to help her.

It will not be easy. Racial tensions from the disease run high and Layla's parents keep her in isolation. Helping Layla could be deadlier than the virus.

A short story from the world of the Radicci Sisters and the Tenebrous Chronicles about a girl trying to keep what little people she can trust in her life.