Neal Wallace was led to a registration office to fill out a form. Anyone new to Argent Base who passed quarantine had to register. Those with superpowers were scouted by the major family factions, while ordinary people were assigned jobs based on their skills.
He watched as a heavy-set, fierce-looking middle-aged woman led Flora Bloom away, his mind elsewhere as he filled out the form. If Flora Bloom hadn't told him to go on ahead into the base, get his bearings, and then meet up with Cynthia Grant without worrying about her, he would have gladly gone with her to suffer in the maternity quarantine zone.
'How could he not be worried?' The maternity quarantine zone—to put it nicely—was for isolating pregnant women. But according to Gavin Todd, the man who had taken them to the quarantine room yesterday, even a perfectly healthy person would struggle to last three days in there, to say nothing of a pregnant woman.
