Teresa found him kneeling next to the dead body, staring down at it, transfixed. A man he’d once known, a man he’d never really liked. Never liked at all, actually. But no one deserved an ending like that. No one. She practically had to carry him to the transport. He was as dazed mentally as physically. Spent in every way. He planned to sleep for a week. Teresa, he said with his mind on the way back to the complex. Yeah? After a long pause, he finally said it. They’ll never find a cure.
