The Genesis Grave.

He was a contamination, a foreign object that would soon be reclaimed by a world not his own. His body lay for cycles. The planet’s native decomposers, slow and cautious, began their work. But within Kaelen’s cells, a trillion silent passengers awoke to a new world: the bacteria of his gut, the dormant viruses in his DNA, the resilient microbes of his skin. An invisible war began in the dust. Most of the Earthly invaders perished, unable to cope with the alien soil. But a few, tenacious