The Death of the Jeni on Earth

We thought aliens were just sitting up there and watching u die, out of reach of anything we could throw at them. Then the c d c and the w h o calculated disease vectors and infection rates and realized that the germs were still being spread from down here. Barring miracle, civilization had about a week to live. Thank heaven the russians were no longer atheists, because that's where we got our miracle. They'd been waiting the moment the aliens came down and showed themselves. The jeni fell back, but their ships took off, leaving thousands of their own to the tender mercies of the human race. We mourned our dead. And after ten years, we