Chapter 10Twenty-seven hours later Javi and a couple of hundred other Ixellans showed up to hangar bay 3. They were reporting in batches, he knew, others had later times to come to the hangar bays. Nobody carried more than a small bag. Some carried only what they had in their pockets. They’d been told they could bring along a few personal items and to box up the rest of their belongings in crates provided, to be put in storage for now. So clearly they were moving out of the bunk rooms.
Everyone milled about, chatting, abuzz with excitement. It was the middle of the night period, and people had either stayed up talking, or got up early, so most were running on little sleep. It made them wired rather than grumpy though. Tables of tin mugs had been set up for people to fill with coffee from
