Ah, screaming parents, misbehaving small children, and incontinence.

Just another day at work.

Isn't it funny how things can change in just an instant?

One moment it was an ordinary day, and the next the sky was black and there was black sludge spraying from every available water source, the sinks, the plumbing, the sprinkler system, every – fucking – where.

For those that survived that day, they would remember that moment as the way the world ended. Not with fire and not with ice, not with sand or metal, not with darkness or light, but with black sludge that rained down on them from their own systems.

Some of the nurses outright fled, but others stayed to try and help the patients. Caitlin Strucker was one of those, passing a small toddler back to his panicking mother and pointing her to the nearest fire exit as she tried to help a heavily pregnant woman with a broken leg into a wheelchair.

And still the black sludge rained down.