Doctor Fergus Todd raised himself to his full height and sighed as he surveyed the remains of the latest autopsy subject on his table. Bearing the military rank of Captain, Todd deliberated on the sheer waste of the life of the young woman on whose body he"d just completed his fourth post-mortem examination of the day.
“The same as all the others,” he said, looking sadly at Liz Bell as she waited patiently for the result of his examination. “Every organ in the body drained of fluid, as though they were desiccated on the spot. The skin lesions look bad, but had little to do with the actual cause of death.”
“So there"s no doubt that they all died as a result of the toxins?”
“None at all. The only ones we"ll find who died as a result of the explosion will be those who were too close to the
