Helen wasn’t expecting visitors. Her research had been making slow but steady progress so far. When Caleb told her about the existence of intelligent ghouls, she didn’t believe it initially. However, after several months of forced testing in a contained and ideal environment, she started to see some truth in Caleb’s claims about the future.
Yet, there are so many uncertain factors within her experiments and test subjects that the scientist wasn’t sure what was going on.
“Helen,” Caleb greeted and passed the scientist a tuna melt sandwich and coffee.
“Oh! How lovely. It’s been a while since I last saw or heard from you. Is everything on the outside doing well? I saw the news. The army had pulled out of the city but survivors would be shot on sight if they tried to leave.”
The programmer
