PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
She draped his arm over her heavily calcified shoulder, bearing his two-ton weight with the help of her hydraulic pistons locking into a high-tension gear.
"Get him to the forge," Silas wheezed, keeping his harpoon raised. "We can melt down some nutrient-paste. The Leviathan needs calories to keep those scales hard."
But before they could take a single step toward the center of the camp, the Black Lake began to boil.
It wasn't a gentle bubbling. The water violently churned, foaming with thick, toxic white froth just a hundred yards off the shoreline, near the exact spot where the massive, skyscraper-sized section of the Spire's transit tube had crashed.