PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
ressilife flashed before my eyeseverything went blackthe silence was deafeningwhen the world fell silent
"If you pull it, you'll open the artery! Mama Zuri, seal the entry wound as he pulls!"
Mama Zuri’s hands glowed with a brilliant, soothing amber light. She pressed them to Baraka’s torn shoulder.
"On three," Daniel grunted, gripping the jagged bone. "One. Two. Three!"
Daniel ripped the spike out. Baraka screamed, his back arching off the dirt, but Mama Zuri’s healing light instantly surged into the wound, rapidly cauterizing the torn blood vessels and knitting the shredded muscle together.
Baraka collapsed back against the earth, panting heavily. His shoulder was healed, but the Caloric Debt from the Overclock left him entirely paralyzed from the waist down. He couldn't move his legs.