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The sky was darkening when one of her men called out to Rona that the scientists were ready.
She turned away from the brown landscape that surrounded the Legion compound she had arrived at two days earlier. It had been an agricultural college before the freak virus had been unleashed on the world. Several years afterward, when the small town nearby had perished in the confusion and flames brought on by mass panic and anger at what the so-called cure for the common cold had wrought, the Legion moved in.
Its location, four hours southwest of High Command and a similar distance to the northwest of Dalwaring, had been an ideal spot at which to observe what the government was up to. No one travelled this way anymore; the land that had been drought-stricken even before the Legion began t
