rvived six month

ever heard on

eared into the darkness. The paper announcing Kael's survival was

the messa

. SUBJECT

bered the voic

y

nded like the mindless noises the infected ma

like someone

who kn

By dawn, the laundromat was behind her, and

about Kael, the evacuation recor

cted liked to gather. Her injured leg throbbed beneath its bandage, but she ignored

't waste a

ors hanging open. Before the outbreak, it had served as an emergency coordination centre. Now we

hed with her

de?" she cal

le

through th

red across the floor. Someone had emptied the emergency cabinets. The rece

rched th

ng us

the documents had been soaked by rain leaking through the ceiling. She nearly aband

p covered

CUATION - REST

art began

open

about people who had been separated from the general population during the evacuati

had been mark

locations that didn't appear

hed for Ka

it on the

KAEL -

is name w

ELIX STATION. ST

been writte

onths

lder so tightly tha

at least a month after

evacuation centre and transpo

h

answer, but the only other reference t

AL MEMORY RETENTION. DO NOT

memory

ink of the infected ma

ook he

vidence before dr

c came from the

around, pi

ken wall clock. Its indicator light blinked weakly

slowly and ad

filled

voice e

sonnel... maintain co

eaned

ission cra

solated. Repeated recognition

ition

ightened arou

interrupted t

tion wing. Subject D-17 is as

opped b

voice

he subject. His responses are becomin

adio

ther voi

weak, and pain

yr

the edge o

ae

crackled

.." Kael whispered, "

ash inter

uted in the

transmiss

ionless, stari

was

k in his voice when he was frightened. She had heard that v

was a

rified her more tha

trus

were

ad they do

sounded from th

older and shoved i

act shook t

e window and peered throu

the blue shirt sto

. They were not wandering aimlessly or chasing passing sounds. The

ounted

twe

ged from

omach

fected before, but never

pped away from the others and

d at the

e hand and knocked a

e ti

a

a

a

away from

attern the previous day. Now it was us

towards th

me from th

a f

orn uniform suggesting it had once been a police offic

ad se

metal can towards t

hoed through

officer turne

erged into a narrow alley, jumped over a fallen fence, and

en did

g throbbed, and her hand

erself to br

was a

t Helix

him had frightened t

page again. Beneath the transfer details was a sm

the security unif

meone had wr

R SERAPH

nder except that whoever left the

was e

ge and placed it

e, across the mountain pass, and into territory where the

food, and no guarantee she

me in six months, sh

arted w

cted man in the blue shirt entered the lobby. He igno

the desk where Nyra

settled on t

d towards the

nfected outside b

behind reinforced glass, Kael Kane pr

sister's voice

she wa

d have mad

with his fist and shouted

wn the f

tared

iling, where a faint vibration had begun

ard me," he

e groan rose from

d away from

coming