PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
Baraka Juma walked down the center of the main parliamentary avenue.
He was entirely alone. He had explicitly forbidden Musa, Jabari, and Eliana from accompanying him. If Malik intended to break the truce and unleash a gravitational singularity to crush him, Baraka would not allow his lieutenants to be caught in the blast radius.
Baraka wore his scavenged grey t-shirt and heavy cargo pants, a tactical radio clipped to his belt. In his right hand, he tightly gripped the jagged fragment of the Mbeya meteor Nyx had delivered to the Makuyuni pass. The stone pulsed with a faint, warm violet light, singing a silent, resonant harmony with the blood in his veins.