PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
It was as if he had punched a bottomless well of empty space.
Baraka gasped, his momentum instantly canceled, leaving him off-balance.
The figure stepped out of the shadows and into the red glare of the chemical flares.
He was a young man, perhaps in his early twenties, but he looked completely devoid of life. He wore a specialized, skin-tight suit of matte-grey polymer that covered him from the neck down. His skin was the color of bleached bone, sickly and pale. He had no hair, no eyebrows, and his eyes were the most terrifying thing Baraka had ever seen.