PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"Tindo told them we were monsters. Malik proved it to them on national television. They know what's coming up the highway."
Baraka turned to face his makeshift army.
It was a ragtag, desperate assembly. At its core were the forty-two hardened, deeply traumatized veterans of Task Force Eclipse, clad in their sterile grey prison jumpsuits and scavenged tactical vests. Flanking them were thirty civilian volunteers from the Warren—bakers, mechanics, and teachers whose only combat experience was surviving the purges. They carried rusted pipes, wooden bats, and the sheer, desperate willpower to protect the families they had left behind in the dark.