Spoils of the Swarm

A series of sharp hisses sliced across the freezing air. From the sixty-foot concrete walls behind them, blinding phosphorus flares arched high into the midnight sky, casting a harsh, flickering glare over the killing ground.

The sudden illumination revealed a waking nightmare.

Across the distant plains, an endless sea of mutant beasts surged through the dark, their glowing eyes like a blanket o