'MOVE IT, MORONS!' Maria yelled at the top of her lungs. 'What's the situation?'
'This guy went berserk! He bit six people, including Bob here' the police officer pointed at his partner.
'Here too? That's the third time today! People are going crazy all over the city!' the girl said and went to inspect Bob's wound.
'Urgh… I'm alright! Just a flesh wound! Go help the others!'
'Gimme your hand, you idiot!' Maria grabbed the officer's hand and quickly disinfected and bandaged it.
'Wow… you're quick…'
'Where are the others?'
'Right there!'
'God damn it!' she ran to the rest of the victims.
There were five of them, two men, two women and a small boy. The boy wasn't bitten, merely scratched, and his wound wasn't really that serious. Maria quickly bandaged him up and went to treat the others.
One of the bitten, a girl in her twenties, had collapsed. The other, about 35, was still conscious, but only barely.
'What… WHAT IS THIS?' the young doctor yelled as she inspected the unconscious girl's wound.
She was bitten on the neck.
'Is that… necrosis? That's completely impossible! When was she bitten?'
'A few minutes ago' one of the men answered.
'Are you sure she was bitten just a few minutes ago?'
'Yeah, absolutely… this lunatic ran by and started biting left and right… she was first'
Maria turned on her hands-free phone and quickly dialed a number, then started disinfecting the wound.
'Maria! What's going on?'
'Gabe, how long does it take for necrosis to start appearing?'
'Hmm… The shortest time I can think of is days… Like my patient from this morning. Why?'
'Because I've got necrosis on a victim bitten just a few minutes ago'
'WHAT? Completely impossible!'
'Yeah, that's what I thought! What should I do?'
Gabe bit his cigarette.
'Bandage it like normal and bring the patient to Resurgam. Where were they bitten?'
'It's a neck wound'
'What? So I guess it's bleeding heavily?'
'That's the thing – it's not! It's almost not bleeding!'
Dr. Cunningham kept silent.
'Gabe, what the hell is going on?'
'Wish I knew!'