PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
His boot lifted two inches off the stone floor.
"Don't push it, Baraka," Eliana warned from her workstation, not even looking up from her microscope. "Your glycogen stores are still at thirty percent. If you force the muscle to contract without chemical fuel, the fibers will snap."
Baraka exhaled, letting his boot drop back to the floor with a heavy thud. He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "I can't lead an army from a bed, Eliana. If the UN retaliates for Pangani..."