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Safe Oblivious to the danger of the weapons pointed at theether and waited for instructions One of the soldiers stepped forward Cooper took a similar step forward toand standing to attention
He couldn&039;t see as behind the soldier&039;s protective facemask &039;Cooper?&039; the faceless officer said with surprise clearly evident in his voice, despite it beingapparatus &039;Where the hell have you been, soldier? We thought you were long gone Welcome back&039; The weapons were lowered
No uard the survivors were crammed into a decontamination chamber
Those troops who had ventured out into the open with thehed and joked in a similar chamber adjacent to the first The initial relief and euphoria felt by the people from outside quickly disappeared Exhausted and empty they sat and stared into space or slept or cried as their bodies were cleaned and every last trace of the disease was removed fro on Michael&039;s lap She looked up into his tired face and wondered ould happen next
Would the questions they&039;d both been asking since the first htmare finally be answered by someone in this cavernous base? Would someone be able to explain what had happened to their world? From the little that Cooper had been able to tell them, the decontamination process would last for more than a day
As the hours crept slowly by she drifted in and out of consciousness Although still restless and uneasy in these new and alien surroundings, for the first ti hunted out and attacked by vicious bodies No uns and masks seemed to be nowhere near as much a threat as what remained of the rest of the population outside These people, she hoped, were rational and controlled Thebodies on the surface were not
In order to conserve power the electric light in the decontamination chamber itched off
Emma curled up with Michael and waited silently for the next day to arrive Although she wasn&039;t coht it would be Friday Alun Almost teeks since they&039;d lost the farmhouse
Maybe toin to ain In the ar to her, and surrounded by ain, Eain Safe
Co in 2004