TWENTY-SEVEN
At the MMP, the dolphins were put into enclosures Eva thought were far too small for marine mammals. Perhaps it was for the best they wouldn’t be staying here long. An aide then came to fetch Thomas, Jake, Eva, and Axel for the meeting the master chief had mentioned. Eva still didn’t understand how Axel had such a high security clearance with the US military, and it bothered her. After all, he was a German national. She’d asked him before, and he refused to say. She suspected he hadn’t even told Sarah.
Jose, Sol, Marie, and Ruben were to stay behind on the docks to take care of the dolphins. And Sarah was still with her flight crew at Miramar, but she’d made plans to meet Axel later for dinner at the NCO club there—which to Eva’s surprise was a Denny’s franchise—a diner that
