The black-clad stared at the young woman for a good minute or so, taken aback by her words and her questioning of his statements.

[i]She asks me for answers and when I grant them she disputes my word? Little...[/i]

He immediately cut his thoughts.

After all, if she had only just come to and was truly suffering from amnesia, he imagined how the things he told her sounded, even though they were true.

All he could do was be patient with her and explain as best he could.

If she chose not to accept his word, then she would soon discover this new realityfor herself.

He suddenly moved his arms and lifted his shotgun from his lap and lowered it down toward the right side of his chair and laid it on the floor next to him.

He then turned his eyes back to the woman before him and spoke.

"The Omega-13 Virus is spread through freshwater contamination. Basically, if you drink tainted water or it should come into contact with say your eyes, ears, or nose, then you have infected yourself with it. Or, if you consume any water based or water dependent food that is based in tainted water, you will be infected. This means things like fruits and vegetables hydrated with tainted water or food prepared with tainted water.
In such case, you will be dead in roughly eight hours, unless of course you commit suicide or someone else puts you down. The other method of infection is contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, saliva and whatnot. The reason the Virus basically spread across the country so fast is because somehow or another the water supplies of our nation and other nations were contaminated enmasse, and no one knows how the hell that even happened."

He adjusted himself in his chair and cleared his throat loudly, the sound was coarse and rattling.

"Now," he said,"as far as symptoms goes, they are as follows; a severe, throbbing headache, blurry vision, and ringing in the ears. However, these symptoms are then followed by a new set of symptoms, which basically consists of blood pouring out of your eyes, ears, and nose, still accompanied mind you by those first symptoms. The final symptoms occur within anywhere from one to two hours prior to death, and they are disorientation and hallucination. After that, as I said, comes a slow, agonizing death."

He suddenly stood and paced quickly across the room, his heavy rubber boots clopping across the wooden floor.

He stood before one of the broken out windows and stared out into the quiet, empty forest outside, his arms crossed over his chest.

"I've watched it happen." He said suddenly, keeping his gaze out the window and his arms crossed.