HomebodiesChapter 8
Thirty local days after the discovery and destruction of the cholera lab, Gath had the duty at the clinic. By local noon, just four hours after opening, he had already seen sixteen patients, only two of whom had anything verifiably wrong. A major deployment was scheduled for the next day—a two-night maintenance trip consisting of an entire platoon of marines and more than thirty technicians to a dam at the very northern fringes of the AOR—and the inevitable wave of vague, unidentifiable...