“Mr. Franklin.”
Zack looked up from his desk. “Yes?”
“Signora Mancini wants to see you.” A young Marine stood in the doorway. This new batch had arrived on Nibiru the day after Dr. Bradley, Colonel Berger, and Dr. Tremayne had portaled back to Terra. They were so young!
“Thank you. Which office is hers?” One week. Mancini, Mercier, and Lewis had only been here seven days, but it felt like seven years.
“I think it belonged to the lady who left before my platoon got here.”
“Thank you, Marine.” She’d taken over Dr. Bradley’s office? That was impertinent.
“Uh…she wants you there now.”
“All right.” He pushed himself away from his desk.
The Marine paced beside him the entire way, and that was when Zack began to have a bad feeling about things. But he didn’t bother asking what was going o
