After we finished talking about what we'd need from the CDC, and what we could actually carry, we agreed the research ca first. Every file, every note. Anything that could help us understand what really happened.
Jenner found a few old, hard-shelled suitcases in storage. They weren't perfect, but they'd keep the papers dry and flat. Once we had them packed and ready, we headed for Zone 5.
A few minutes later, we arrived. I used his keycard to unlock the door, and we stepped inside.
Jenner walked past without a word and sat down at the desk, starting to type right away.
"Start sorting the prints," he said. "Anything that ntions France or the variant program goes into its own suitcase. Keep it separate."
I nodded before moving over to the printer. It started humming, then coughing out the first pages. I moved over and began sorting the first batch.
We spent the next two hours sorting.
Page after page, stack after stack. So were clean reports. Others were half-redacted or scrawled with notes in the margins. We kept separating everything by label and tag. Most of it made sense only to soone like Jenner.
By the end of it, we had every useful piece of data about the walkers printed out and sorted.
I turned to Jenner as I closed up the last suitcase.
"I have a question, did you get the results from our blood? The samples we gave earlier?"
He looked up from the terminal, eyes a little tired but alert.
"Yes," he said. "I wanted to see if maybe one of you wasn't infected... or at least reacted differently to the virus."
I nodded slowly.
"Don't worry, I read the files. We're all infected."
I paused, then asked,
"But was there anything different about mine?"
Jenner shook his head.
"You're infected, sa as everyone else."
"I'm not asking about the virus. I an in general. Was there anything unusual?"
He hesitated for half a second.
"I don't know. I didn't check. I was only focused on how it responds to the virus."
I gave a small nod.
"Could you check? Just to see if there's anything unusual."
Jenner turned back to the terminal.
"Vi, bring up blood sample thirty-four. Full spectrum display, neural interaction markers included."
The screen on the wall flickered, then lit up with rows of colored data and a rotating 3D scan of a blood cell cluster.
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