PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
Logistically, tactically, and mathematically, taking in two hundred starving, bleeding refugees was suicide.
But as Baraka looked at the mixed crowd of humans and mutants huddled together around the thermal fires—people who had chosen to bleed and die together rather than let Malik’s zealots tear their families apart—he knew there was no choice.
If he turned them away, he was no better than General Nyosi, treating lives as disposable assets in a tactical equation. If he let them die, he was surrendering the soul of his species to Malik’s darkness.
"It's true," Baraka said, his voice firm, echoing with an unbreakable, absolute resolve. "You are safe here. No one will hurt your family."