A six-year-old colonist going blind from an alien rainwater organism in his eye — the first human casualty of Ilus's biome.
Jason is a six-year-old boy in First Landing, son of Amanda (whose wife was the cell fighter Zadie, killed by RCE security). Prone to eye infections, he develops something new: his vision goes green and dim, and Lucia Merton finds a faint green discoloration spreading into the vitreous humor of his eye. Elvi Okoye identifies the cause as an organism from the greenish cloud-biome — carried in a raindrop into his already-compromised eye, salt-tolerant enough to survive in a human — with no known treatment and his eyesight in jeopardy.
Frightened and bloodshot-eyed, he becomes the alarming first case of the alien world learning to colonize human bodies.
A six-year-old boy with deep brown skin gone ashy, bloodshot eyes as if from weeping, a faint green discoloration behind one cornea like a badly kept aquarium.
Colonist child; the index case of the alien blindness organism infecting humans on Ilus.