Summary

In Chapter 54, Gallagher is nervous alone with Justineau. He’s also thinking again about the soundness of his decision to go back to Beacon. The search for food is slow and nerve wracking. To make matters worse, it is raining. They finally find a locked up garage next to a looted corner store. There are only carbonated beverages and snack foods in the garage, but some it is still good so they load up and head back to Rosie.

In Chapter 55, in the lab Caldwell makes slides from the tissue samples she took from the hungry at Wainwright House. She can’t use the microscope yet so she instead puts the sporangium she collected into a sealed manipulator tank. Using a scalpel she manages to break open the sporangium revealing grey spores. As she manipulates the spores, she realizes that Parks is standing...