25 READY FOR WAR
Garret descended the stairs, to find that the other three had preceded him to the couch. They were quietly talking, trying to pretend that the current situation was not tying their stomachs in knots with worry.
Friday April 19, 2019@ 4:00 PM
The coffee was gone. The tea was gone. Freya had managed to find a small quantity of lemon flavored powdered drink on one of the high back shelves of the house larder, so she had mixed a carafe of the pseudo-drink for the lot of them to enjoy.
The television was on, showing nothing but static. Ian had diligently searched all of the channels for programming, without any success at all. Garret turned the telephone back on and tried the NORAD number that he had previously used to call for the air strike. He tried it five times in a ro
