~ ZEV ~
"There'd been an outbreak," he ground out. "That's what they told me. Nick took me aside the day before I'd planned to return and said he was so, so grateful they'd taken me out and been controlling my contact, because there'd been an outbreak here, and Chimera were dying. It was the same germ, probably spread by the young. But it was beginning to take some of the adults. And it wasn't safe for me to return until they had confirmed why I could resist it, to ensure there was no risk that I could contract it with extended contact."
He gritted his teeth and forced himself not to see the images flashing through his mind—the carnage they'd described. The fear of the people, and his own guilt and relief that he was safe and could do what was needed to protect all of them… It was sick. So sick.
