PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"When you collapsed in the crater, we weren't back from the pass yet. You were bleeding out on the surface."
"Then who brought me down?" Baraka asked, confused.
Musa stepped aside, gesturing toward the entrance of the tent.
A young man stepped inside. He was a baseline human, wearing a torn, dust-covered button-down shirt. He looked incredibly nervous, holding a battered cloth cap in his hands. Baraka recognized him. He was one of the refugees who had arrived from Dar es Salaam—the man who had carried his pregnant wife through the colonial drains.
"This is Maxwell," Musa introduced him. "When the ceiling stopped shaking, he and a dozen other humans forced the floodgate open. They climbed up