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I shook my head at both of them and looked at the others before I spotted the general emerging from a door down the hall.
“Call him back,” the general said.
“Do you think he’s a runaway pet?”I asked.“He doesn’t come when I whistle.”
“But he would return if he thought you were in trouble.You just said so yourself.”
“What is wrong with you?”Roland said.“He was willing to cooperate.He already let you take blood samples as proof of that.He was training men how to better kill infected and stay alive.All you had to do was keep your word.”
“Do you see what’s happening out there?”the general demanded.“Do you see how many people are desperately waiting for their chance at salvation?A salvation that just ran off?While you’re selfishly trying to save a handful of relatives, I’m trying to save everyone that’s left.”
“Bring them,” he ordered, moving toward the door.
“This is not going to end well,” Katie said, looking at me.
“I don’t think so either,” I said.
We were led outside a distance from the buildings.A vehicle waited, and when the soldier fetched the general a bullhorn, I wanted to groan.
Instead, I beat him to whatever announcement he wanted to make.
“We found the cure,” I shouted to the now-silent crowd.“It’s the grey.”
“Shut her up,” the general ordered.
The hand that covered my mouth didn’t silence the truth.
“They’re trying to kill him,” Steve yelled before he and the others were silenced.
The previously quiet crowd started to murmur.The fence rattled, and their volume increased.
The general lifted his bullhorn.
“Back away from the fence, or we will open fire,” he said.“Molev, you have three seconds to comply or—”
There was a thump on metal behind us.I couldn’t turn to look and closed my eyes when I heard Molev’s voice.
“Look at my arms,” he called.“See the scars, and know I’ve been bitten and have survived.”
“Descend from the roof and surrender yourself to our custody,” the general said over Molev.
“Your leaders made promises in exchange for my help,” Molev said, continuing to speak to the crowd.“Promises they have not kept.”
“If you choose not to comply, you risk your life and the lives of everyone you care about,” the general boomed through the speaker.
“If you wish for a cure and my help, have your leaders release those who have gained my trust, and keep their promises.”
The general tossed the bullhorn to a soldier.
“Get a drone in the air.Now.Follow him.”
I elbowed the person holding me, not to break free but to get him to ease up.
“And them?”another soldier asked.
“Take them back inside for questioning.”
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