CHAPTER XXIII
Time. It moved quickly when you had a lot of things to handle at the same time. The last few weeks had been a blur of activity, from the range to LIPD for questioning, most of it for Mia's specifics. Many of the students had been asking why a class instructor and three students would be missing for days at a time, and always at the same time. But the instructors had been solidly behind them. All instructors were probably in on the big secret. Chuks sensed that the whole jail term thing was a front. It was probably just meant as a scare, because neither Instructor Okolo nor Instructor Maxwell had been in jail for a day, not to talk of five years.
But then things had gotten so bad that the instructors had started to dish out punishments to those who were getting too nosy. The
