THE BRIDGE
You got out. Now there's one road left, and a soldier with a thermometer.
Basement level two. No lights, no sound, until Lena turns the key and every head in the garage turns with it. Up the ramp, through the gate, and onto the only road out of the city. The car radio switches itself on: the bridge is closed, turn back. At the checkpoint a masked soldier raises a fever scanner, and Theo reads 103.1°F.
If they scan Theo, they will take him. What does Riley do?
The road not taken · ATheo would have been put in a quarantine tent on the bridge, and Riley would have had to choose between leaving and staying with him.
The road not taken · BA veterinary fever reducer gets him through at 99.8°F, but the soldier keeps Lena's ID, and the drug has a price later.
What happened · CThey break through under fire. The car is wrecked on the far side, Lena is hit, and now they are fugitives.