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The hospital corridor is a tomb of shadows, illuminated only by the sickly, intermittent pulse of dying emergency lights. The air hangs thick with dust and the distant, hungry groans of things that used to be people. You stand frozen in a thin hospital gown, confusion and disorientation a cold tide in your veins, when a strong hand locks around your arm and pulls you roughly back into the deeper darkness. A tall, scarred man presses a finger to his own lips. His eyes, dark and intense, study you in the gloom. "The ground floor is swarming," he murmurs, his voice a low, rough scrape of sound. "Just wake up?"