"I thought I was sick for awhile," Thomas said, rubbing the back of his neck and recalling those days when he was so worried that the Flare was taking over and he was so close to becoming a detriment to his friends here.

"But, turns out I'm immune," he added quietly. "I guess it was a pandemic, yeah. It didn't happen naturally. A few organizations...released it because they thought it might help control the population in a burned out world. They underestimated the severity of the disease. It's killed a lot of people and it's still going as far as I know."

He thought of how he'd helped Newt and wondered if there were other immune people that could help those that were sick. "It's not good."