The progress on the first set of volunteers continued over the coming days, and as it did, the world watching could not look away.
Diego's legs had regenerated to his ankles by the fourth day. And the livestream carried it to the six billion people who had made the stream part of their daily rhythm — checking in the morning, watching through the afternoon, falling asleep with it running and waking to find it still there.
The comment section had developed its own culture over the days. Regulars who had been there since the first injection had become familiar names in the scroll, people tagging each other when something significant appeared on screen, building a shared vocabulary for an event that had no precedent.
Four days in, the vocabulary was still insufficient.
