PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"But they don't know he lost."
Ren slowly pushed himself to his feet, fighting the gravity of his own bones. He walked heavily toward the drop-pod, his wet scales leaving dark puddles on the rusted floor.
"Nero," Ren said, looking back at the wounded Crustacean-strain mutant. "You’re a mechanic. Your arm runs on hydraulic lines and scavenged iron. Can you strip a High Council drop-pod?"
Nero’s segmented eyes widened, a slow, dangerous, scavenger’s grin spreading across her mandibles. "Strip it? Scribe, I can dismantle that pod down to the base wires and turn the hull into a blast-furnace. Why?"