The City

The city is where all of the scientists come from. Though the biologist lives with her husband in the city, because of his job, she hates it. She would rather be in the natural world, and often she escapes and goes walking by herself to an empty and overgrown lot not too far from their home.

Area X

This is an area past the border that has been deemed unfit for human habitation after an undisclosed military research accident. The reader is never told completely about what form that catastrophe took, but it is evident that whatever it was that the military was involved with, it did involve genetic experimentation of some sort. That the experiment went wildly out of control is an understatement, and it would seem that the continued forays by expeditions are not to assess the viability of the area, but to continually check...