Quarantine Red — The Carrier's Burden
Quarantine Red is what they call the zone where mutation is the norm and the uninfected are the anomaly — a reversal of the outside world's fractured order that has bred a community with its own brutal logic. The remnant of the pre-mutation population that chose to stay and adapt rather than flee built something extraordinary here: a functioning society in the ruins of a hospital campus, governed by biologists and sustained by the desperate ingenuity of people who have accepted they will never look the same again. You arrived clean, uninfected, and the betrayal in their eyes is not hostility — it is the memory of everyone who came before you and tried to cure rather than understand.
About Quarantine Red — The Carrier's Burden
Quarantine Red is what they call the zone where mutation is the norm and the uninfected are the anomaly — a reversal of the outside world's fractured order that has bred a community with its own brutal logic. The remnant of the pre-mutation population that chose to stay and adapt rather than flee built something extraordinary here: a functioning...Read more