HappyRN_art's 100-word story for July 27, 2025

HappyRN_art wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 27, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I watched the woman sitting across from me. I couldn't figure out what she had in her hand. As a new agent, I was ordered to keep my distance and maintain surveillance. The company received a tip that this woman, traveling under the pseudonym Angie was in town. Angie is suspected of using tainted money to spread a deadly virus that was absorbed into the skin. Heart racing, I text the emergency code 666 to my handler. Using the magnifying app, I watched her applying a substance to a twenty dollar bill. I need backup, NOW! Passengers could be contaminated.

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