The Silent 245

Chapter 245

int to die. I don't wa

to die

"Doctor, please please save u

"My son where's my son?"

"Let us out please! We

! We're not even ud

"He's infected" He's infected-run'

Even before the carriage reached the gates, Eliza could already hear the voices pouring from within the stone-and-timber barricades of the quarantine zone- voices choked with fear, panic, grief, and despair.

Some wailed Some begged. Some shouted accusations. Others simply crouched in corners, too quiet, too still-their bodies pale, their skin sallow, their eyes vacant, as if they had already accepted death.

This one holds a little over two hundred infected." Nolan said quietly, his horse riding alongside Eliza's carriage. "It's actually the smallest outbreak among all the counties in Noganlul"

Because the number of patients was relatively small, only a linle over a hundred masked guards were stationed here, aided by a few county officials-just enough to maintain control

"Don't step out yet, Nolan instructed "Wait until I call for you."

Eliza nodded. "Alright"

She had promised to follow his lead, and she did just that.

presented his token, spoke briefly with the head guard, and whatever he said made the guards eyes

said something more, and suddenly the soldiers were patting their

Eliza

today. Instead, she wore the flower crown Mary had woven for her-its

Grace?" one of the masked guards gasped "Please-put on

shook her

water from her pocket farm, and the moment she stepped d she could feel

herbs were doing their work. The spiritual energy was

she wasn't wearing a mask,

protest

the soldiers and offered

"The sickness will pass

soon

placed her hand on the barricade

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Pledde

the gate opened, they

zone.

was simple she

infused by were already taking effect. But the patients, not yet aware,

it was

the Lord her clear, ethereal

the plague-ridden compound, My spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for He has looked with favor on

gold-with delicate gold embroidery curling along the edges. On her

flower crown,

leaving the had sprinkled

couldn't see the energy it carried,

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