Samantha
The hotel problem consumed the next hour, but what fascinated Samantha wasn't the problem itself. It was the way everyone approached it. Diesel pulled up reservation lists while Rook built spreadsheets and cross-referenced registration information. Bones spent most of the afternoon on the phone with hotels, sponsors, and volunteers while scribbling notes across a legal pad that had become increasingly impossible for anyone except him to decipher. Tank contributed a steady stream of ideas that ranged from surprisingly useful to completely ridiculous. Through it all, Bjorn remained at the center of the conversation, guiding it forward whenever discussions drifted too far off course. Nobody seemed particularly panicked. Nobody blamed anyone. Nobody wasted time arguing about whose fa
