Chapter 3Western Appalachian District Council House and Council Village
May 24, 2259, late Tuesday morning
Quentin saw just ahead, on top of a low green hill, a round wooden building that was surrounded by Council House Village, a small collection of houses, and shops, a stable, gardens, much like the village around Sylva Station. Nothing remained of the pre-Arrival town that had once encompassed both places, except odd bits of stone, asphalt, and brick. Crushing the 2038 Uprising had not just meant the libraries’ destruction. The Lindauzi’s Hounds, humans bred as killers, had first released a quick-kill variant of the Disease, in a thick fog. The Hounds had hunted down the survivors and destroyed everything else, leaving no brick on top of another. Quentin, like most humans, had learned
