PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
The engine hummed to life—not a combustion roar, but a high-pitched electric whine.
The boat surged forward, lifting out of the water on its foils, cutting through the darkness at incredible speed. We left the city lights of Arusha behind, heading deeper into the wilderness.
For a long time, the only sound was the wind and the water. I sat in the back, my mind racing. I looked at my hands—the hands that had grown back from bloody stumps just hours ago.
"The Auditor said I was a mutation," I said, my voice barely audible over the wind. "He said I absorbed radiation from the train crash."