Maybe if it had been earlier in the outbreak Talia would have been surprised by the way Jake seemed to question the point of quarantining people, but she had seen enough over the years that it was just another question to her. “Why not,” she responded. “We still operate under the knowledge that a percentage of the population that are bitten have a natural immunity to the infection. We have the space; we might as well use it for something.” Talia didn’t think she’d ever be able to shoot someone in cold blood. Self defense maybe, but definitely not just because they were unlucky enough to get to close to the infected.
“I couldn’t see our leader, Evan, agreeing to shoot people without knowing whether or not they would be a threat either.” Marchand was fair about a lot of things, including how the compound dealt with those that were bitten.
It seemed like at least a portion of the people that came to Sing Sing were looking for family, so it was the least that Talia could do to check around or put out feelers to see if his sister was in residence. “It’s not problem,” she replied. “Consider it part of the welcome. We have an intranet system, so it’s actually fairly easy to find things out.” The government had had an intanet too, but something told her that he hadn’t seen many government safehouses. Or if he had, it hadn’t been for quite a while. Even the guards in the safehouses didn’t usually do a number like what he walked into the infirmary with.
“And if I hear anything back I’ll let you know,” she told him. “Unless you’d rather have surprise visitors.”