PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
Twenty.
The nose of the aircraft breached the soft, marshy reeds at the edge of Lake Magadi. The front gear sank deep into the mud, jerking the massive plane hard to a halt.
Silence slammed down on the cargo hold, broken only by the hiss of dying alternators and the heavy, ragged breathing of six hundred terrified survivors.
They had stopped.
Baraka dropped to his knees on the edge of the cargo ramp, his arms trembling, sweat pouring down his face, completely coated in red dust. He looked out at the massive trench he had carved into the earth.