Chapter Thirty-Three
The wait time for a taxi was almost two hours, so Emily took the airtrain to the subway, and then the E train to the city. The crowd on the subway buzzed with panicked speculation; nobody knew what the upcoming announcement would be about, but almost everyone thought it had to do with a major terrorist threat. Why else would the FAA ground all planes?
Emily knew the real answer, but she kept her mouth shut and tried to ignore the conversations taking place all around her. New Yorkers were solitary creatures, conditioned not to interact with strangers, but the fear generated by the unusual events seemed to break down those barriers. Everyone was talking to everyone else, putting forth their ideas for whether it was the Islamic State or Al-Queda or something else entir
