Deadly Game
His large right hand flew across the mechanical keyboard, entering a complex string of commands that closed out the hijacked security feeds before he finally turned his dark, bloodshot eyes toward me.
"Victoria's heavy response units just locked down the main gate at Sector 1," he rasped, his voice rougher now, the heat of the infection clearly clawing its way back up his throat. "They're performing a vehicle-by-vehicle grid search. If you had been thirty seconds slower, you would have been pinned against the seawall."
I walked over to the workbench, ignoring his tactical analysis, and reached for the pack. I pulled out the sterile trauma bag, lining up the glass vials of Ceftriaxone, the pl