Outbreak Scenario 35

Five years ago you helped build this settlement from nothing, and thirty-eight people trust you to keep it standing. Tonight, you have to deal with one specific member of your group, a young woman kneeling in the dirt with her hands tied behind her back.

Her name is Claire, and she told you the truth. The Harlan group sent her six weeks ago with instructions to blend in, earn your trust, and map your defenses. Your perimeter guard caught her at two in the morning. She was crouched against the east fence with a pencil and paper. The map she was drawing has sightlines, patrol timing, and every weak point in your outer wall marked clearly in her handwriting.

Harlan has burned three camps in the past two years and killed forty people that you know of.

She says they have her son. He's four years old. She says she had no choice.

You...