PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
She was crying, calling out for her mother, her small hands clutching at the soldier’s armored leg.
"Please," she sobbed. "I want to go home."
The soldier didn't look at her. He didn't even acknowledge her as a living being. He reached for a collar in his belt—a small, child-sized version of the explosive leash.
"Shut up, specimen," the soldier muttered.
He raised his hand to slap the child, to silence her cries.
Something inside Malik didn't just break; it detonated.
The violet light in his eyes didn't pulse; it expanded, turning into two voids of absolute darkness. The air around him began to warp, the heat from the volcanic vents bending as the gravitational constant in the archway shifte