for all the homes and haunts of men // buddie // apocalypse au
chapter one: year zero
“Do you know anything about this Georgia Flu?”
In his mind he pictured his synapses riding a train that was suddenly speeding off its tracks and heading towards certain disaster. Buck struggled to focus again, completely taken off guard by the question. What had he been expecting, exactly? Not this.
“What, that thing overseas?” He wasn’t really one to follow the news in his spare time but Hen had kept one of the local channels on throughout dinner the night before and he remembered the vague headline about the latest epidemic ripping through parts of Europe and Asia. Rising numbers of infected people in major cities, scientists saying they were still trying to pinpoint how it was spread, the usual. Buck remembered being struck by how vacant eyed one doctor had seemed when asked about the rising death toll in his country.
As of right now, I’ve lost contact with my staff in Kyiv. I don’t have an exact number. This flu is spreading faster than we can learn about it.
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