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Interns and technicians were everywhere, all rushing around on weird science errands I don’t understand ood thing Mahir understands a lot more than I do, and he says itof Mahir, theacross the roo to get yourself killed?" he de philosophical question, and one that would be better discussed over a can of Coke," I replied aood to see you, too"

"I have half a mind to punch your face in, you bloody idiot," Mahir said, still scowling

Mahir used to be George’s second in command Since she can’t run a third of the staff as a voice in my head, Mahir took over the Newsies when she died I sorier with hi her place What he never seems to quite understand is that he’s one of the only people in this world who loved George the way I did, and having him on my side makes me feel a little better

Besides, it’s funny as hell when he gets pissed "But you won’t," I said "What’s our status?"

Mahir’s glare faded, replaced by weariness "Alaric is still atte to our mirror sites We’ve put up six new reports froers in the past hour, none of which touch on the Gulf Coast tragedy, and three of the to start pulling his hair out before overn toward the kitchen "How’s Becks doing on the extraction plan?"

Mahir answered with a small shake of his head

"Aw, damn" Alaric’s little sister, Alisa, was in Florida when Tropical Stored to survive the first wave of infections, through a co and dumb luck After that… Alaric was unable to step forward to claim her, since Dr Abbey said that if one of us left, all of us left We thought Alisa s in Florida were too bad for that She wound up in a governular updates and had ed to stay mostly out of trouble Still, it was clear that if we didn’t find a way to get her out of there soon, Alaric was going to do so stupid I understood histhere is

"Yes, well It is what it is" Mahir pacedout since we arrived at Dr Abbey’s--so to die the next ti for our lives "Dr Abbey requests the pleasure of your company once you’ve had the opportunity to clean yourself up"

I groaned I couldn’t help it "More blood tests?"

"More blood tests," he confir in particular "Immunity isue which has devastated the world is a terrible cross to bear," said Mahir, deadpan

"Hey, you try giving blood on a daily basis and see how you feel about it"

"No, thank you"

I sighed "Is this another of those ‘no caffeine before donating’ days? Did she say?"

"I believe it’s not"

"Thank God for that" Don’t getNo one knohy I see the CDC has been telling us is iet bitten, you amplify, sioes "you get bitten; you get annoyed; you have to take a lot of antibiotics, because hu of a bacterial infection would suck; you get better" I understood why Dr Abbey needed blood almost every day It was just a lot of needles

Becks was in the kitchen e arrived She was sitting on the counter, holding a can of Coke "Looking for this?" she asked

"My savior" I walked toward her,motions "Gimme Gimme sweet, sweet caffeine"

"The word is ‘please,’ Mason Look it up" She tossed entle underhand lob that wouldn’t shake the contents up too s to double-checkbitten was toofor it to wear off and for h the lab

I , cold drink before putting the can down on the nearest table and asking, "Have any of the new guysnow," Becks replied "Weyour four"

"Cool" Our lovely hostess needed a constant supply of fresh subjects, since her experiiven time, and her lab protocols didn’t leave rab patrols were going out twice a week, oing to be free of the infected in under threeht, Mason? You could have been killed"