Claude's fingers moved across the keyboard, pulling up additional data. The younger tech specialist's face was tight with exhaustion, but his eyes were sharp.
"Location still unknown," Claude said. "James doesn't have access to that level of operational planning. He's classified as a test subject, not personnel. But the facility is operating under the assumption that Stage Four trials conclude on day fourteen."
"Which means deployment happens immediately after," Marco said, his voice flat. "Day fourteen or fifteen. Maybe less if they're ahead of schedule."
Dimitri looked at the screens....at the facility layouts, at the personnel rosters, at the cold mathematical projections of what would happen if a bioweapon with a two-week silent incubation period was released into an urban population center.
Millions dead within a month. Possibly tens of millions if it spread internationally before detection.
