Kilian and Aaron quickly loaded the controller into one of the military vehicles. A black sack had already been pulled over the man's head while Patrick administered the highest safe dosage of sedative his body could tolerate.
It wasn't enough to suppress the parasite itself, but it would keep the controller unconscious for the next few hours and, hopefully, prevent him from interfering before they reached Cinders of Dusk.
Watching the truck disappear through the camp gate, Gideon and Patrick finally returned to the containment tent.
The aftermath was just as chaotic.
Several corpses of infected civilians were being carried away by Freebound's members while nurses hurried to clean the blood that stained the frozen ground and the overturned furniture.
The smell of iron still lingered inside the tent, making the atmosphere even heavier than before.
The civilians who remained inside the containment cages had completely calmed down.
