Five days had passed since Patrick and the other Greenwardens arrived at Cinder Dusk.
Those five days had been anything but peaceful. Though Gideon was only helping Jade, the situation was enough to make him shake his head and sigh.
At this point, the settlement would be full of zombies and there would be nothing they could do except saving the people who didn't get infected.
Meanwhile, Patrick barely had any time to leave the temporary laboratory Gideon had prepared for him, spending almost every waking hour examining the parasite together with Elaine and his assistants.
Only this morning did the old professor finally step out of the laboratory after receiving a letter tied to the leg of an aberrant dove.
Now, the three of them sat inside Gideon's military truck as it steadily climbed the frozen road leading toward the western perimeter.
