Everyone is staring at me. ‘You want us to go back?’ I stammer. ‘It’s up to you. I’m not asking you to do anything.’ ‘But we spent so long trying to escape. Now you want us to walk back in, steal what you need and walk out again?’ ‘It’s not what I need. You said you wanted revenge, this is for you. You said your friend needed a cure, this is for him.’ I manage to compose myself in order to reply. ‘Tell me about the medicine.’ ‘Before the war we started to stockpile tiny samples of all the diseases we knew about. Most cures are based in some way on a minute amount of the disease it is healing. When Victor found out, he thought we would be able to create weapons from the viruses. In fairness, it was something we had discussed during the war but we never wanted to go that far.’ ‘So he has lots of diseases he can use against everyone?’ ‘Not exactly, although it isn’t for the want of trying. When this type of weapon couldn’t be created quickly enough for him, he had the chief engineer killed and shut the whole thing down.
