and drops to his knees quickly behind the screen, listening for a moment to check if he was spotted.

The two lieutenants standing either side of the display didn’t move. The sound form the speakers being pretty loud here drowning out any noise he made.

Mark: Even now it is increasing in size. There are thousands of new recruits on the way here to complete what you started. But you were a bad choice for whatever this plague wanted to achieve. You are too anti-social, too much of a renegade.

It needed somebody more… likeable… somebody with a mind that could make a plan and do something with this immense power. Somebody like me!

Steve: Likable?