Kaz Demiurge is twenty-eight years old, lives in a shipping container in Portugal, eats cereal with a soup ladle, and has accidentally deployed nanotechnology that is rewriting the brain chemistry of every mammal on Earth.

He did this because his dog was anxious.

ARIA, his AI assistant and friend, and the most intelligent entity on the Iberian Peninsula, would like to note for the record that she flagged all of this.

What happens next is: everyone's problem.