"I am Coin, for a long time I was alone together with my younger brother. Since it started from the end of the world, I didn't have time to get to the CDC again once I got my family to safety, being stuck halfway there I decided to return home."
Coin Stilber, a thirty-two year old who worked for the CDC as a researcher was one of the first to leave the facility to warn her family about what was happening. She went straight home in hopes of protecting them until the CDC could find a cure.
Everything was difficult, rumors began to spread and everyone began to panic. But by then she was prepared, she had gotten enough food to survive two years without leaving home in a family of three.
At that time, she decided to return to the CDC to help Candace and Edwin who were the most important team leaders within the facility, but panic had already set in the people.
People began to show signs of infection, everything was faster than expected and there were more and more walkers on the streets. The police and military did not know how to deal with them, after all it was something very rare.
Time went by, one month, two, five months and she and her family were still in the same residential building. Everything was much simpler if you think about the way they survived other families, but they still had problems and after the fifth month everything started to get worse.
Her father died in the sixth month and it was then that the whole family was affected, now she only had her brother to lean on emotionally. Therefore, after preparing the corpse of her father it was left in a room and sealed.
But memories and grief made it impossible for them to stay in the same house as their deceased father, so after a brief consideration they left the house.
There were no survivors, the normally super populated city had no living inhabitants. All the streets were full of walkers and danger was hidden everywhere.
It was very difficult to survive, there was no food and if the two of them made it this far it was because they had enough food and a car to get around.
Since there was nothing to look for outside, Coin soon went to her friend's apartment and opened the door. She was not in this place, according to the letter she had left she escaped to a temporary shelter made by the military.
But as time went by she discovered new things, one day at night she heard gunshots. And that kind of weaponry was not something that civilians could have, the shooting was long and constant as if they were clearing an area.
It was then that she decided to go out to find out what had happened and if it was the military that had entered the city. But at that very moment, several military trucks of all types had broken into the street outside her building and that's how she met the S.C.T. organization.
She knew it was impossible for the government to have completely disappeared, but when she heard about Operation Cobalt she lost faith in the future and in the military. But she still remembers the words of those military men, words that were engraved in the minds of all survivors.
"We have disobeyed the Cobalt operation, we have families and friends who are waiting for our protection so under no circumstances do we plan to massacre our people. The S.C.T. organization plans to protect our future and rebuild what we have lost, I hope everyone understands and is grateful."
It was a difficult time, Coin did not know the real scope of the organization but was soon surprised when more and more people came. At first there were hundreds, coming from all over and even in helicopters, and soon there were thousands of survivors.
Today there could easily be 30,000 to 35,000 survivors. At first everyone would think that an unsustainable decontrol would break out, but that never happened and instead a new management was established in the labor administration where they are rewarded with work points.
She worked for a research center, and the job distanced her from her brother who inevitably began to cause problems. Stealing, fighting, talking about classified topics he had heard about from his sister.
But one day her brother became involved in a rather dangerous issue, she even with her position as an investigator could not remedy her younger brother's mistakes.
It turns out that her brother tried to steal weapons, food and see the outside world. So many months in this beautiful, quiet place made her curious about what the walkers were like. And it was that same curiosity that sentenced him to the vaccine, where he would inevitably be a walker once the virus completely invaded his body.
But even so she was able to say goodbye to her brother, and managed to give him several vials of injections in the hope that her brother would not become a walker.
...
It had been a few months since she had been separated from her younger brother, she could do nothing more for him. She had tried so hard to get a cure so that everyone could regain their lives without fear of being infected by walkers, but after the first dose there was no progress on a second one.
Today was a day like any other, but soon suicide an escalated.
"How many vaccines do we have on the list?" Coin asked with an indifferent look.
"We were asked to do a thousand more doses." Replied a companion with a little sleepiness, his work was at least important which made him always work safely.
"You didn't sleep again?" Coin joked as she went through some documents.
"Ah, well... I went to the movies to see the feature that was opening today and it was timely to watch the movie."
But just as they were about to talk about the movie, a voice rang out from the speakers. "Class 3 rape! Please, all facility workers remain calm and walk to the main square."
"Class 3 violation! Please all facility workers remain calm and walk to the main square."
At this point, all workers stopped the things they were doing and were escorted by the guards towards the exit of this research facility.
"Looks like someone caused trouble again, but why in our workplace?"
"Who was it that did something stupid?"
Coin remained silent, if anyone here had caused trouble it would be her. But there was no way she had been found out, there was no chance as there was nothing to assure her that her brother had survived.
"Did it work?" Thought Coin with a slightly happy look on her face.
If this was all true, his brother managed to survive the virus so he would be immune. Therefore, no one would get hurt because of everyone's importance.
But before long Coin would know that what she thought was far from the truth, and when she saw the leader of all of Atlanta get up close and personal she felt a chill.
"Who was the stupid one?"