Heyem has honoured Inajda’s wishes, and postponed her retreat back to Hong Kong, and has endured a morning of attempting to keep her big mouth shut, as she spends her twenty fifth birthday with Inajda, Alexand and Jarad.

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Heyem is furious with Alex, that she hasn’t listened to her warning about sleeping with Jarad. She is more upset about Alex’s rejection of her. She has decided to pack her possessions and intends to ask Inajda to take her off the Island back to Hong Kong.
The news of a cure came a day before Alexand and Heyem’s twenty-fifth birthday. As Heyem is soon to leave the island to go back to her career, and Alex is almost recovered enough to return to the army, Heyem is looking for her twin, outside on the beach, as she wishes to celebrate a day she thought they’d never share.
Abouna Panak holds up the antidote, and passes it to a very happy Colonel Merek.
Katherine, and Ajeeta Kothari have spent a month attempting to isolate the antibodies responsible for immunity in their three blood samples.