The Outbreak Protocol

Alira first notices it in silence-the kind of silence that doesn't belong in a place built for saving lives. A patient who should have been stable isn't. A detail too small for anyone else to question, yet too wrong for her to ignore.

She doesn't know it yet, but that moment is the fracture point of everything.

Far from the hospital walls, Kaelis, a Lieutenant assigned to protect the nation, is already being moved into position as unseen alarms begin to echo through systems no one fully understands. Her duty has always been clear: respond, contain, survive. But nothing in her training accounts for how fast reality can start to collapse.

And then it begins.

Not with chaos-but with something quieter. Something worse.

When Alira and Kaelis finally cross paths, it feels less like meeting... and more like being pulled into the same inevitable current. In a world quietly unraveling at the edges, the question is no longer whether they will survive.

It is whether anything they believe in will still exist when the silence finally breaks.