Divine-Inferno-OCT

The Defense Force’s inner sanctum was in organized chaos. Researchers, soldiers, and the infected went about their business in a seething mass of activity. With the plague now airborne, there was little time before the city was lost, but for the first time, there was a chance for salvation. A vaccine, a cure. Hope. Lieutenant Colonel Melian lay guarded by her staff in a private sickroom. She was hooked up to tubes and monitors, managing the battle from a hospital bed. Melian leafed through a report while Doctors Woolwine and Winters fretted over her. Senator Emily Miethner paced the room, her face unreadable. “You shouldn̵

Sebastian glanced at his watch guiltily. He had been away from the house for far too long and any moment now his parents would begin to panic. He wondered how his father would feel. Guilty probably. Guilty that he had tried to force his son to fight in the newly created Defense Force. Perhaps he would be angry that he hadn’t run after Sebastian when he had stormed out of the house after yet another argument. Sad. But Sebastian couldn’t go back to the house now. Not after he had been infected. He couldn’t risk passing it to his parents or his little sisters. Another spasm wracked his body and he cried out in agony. He remem