10
There is no crash.
General Thomas’ words still rang around inside Miranda’s head but found no logical place to land.
“We asked you here to act as independent observers for a critical test flight.”
Jon had wished them all luck. It turned out that whatever his duties were at Groom Lake, they didn’t involve the non-crash NTSB launch that had brought the rest of her team here.
It would have helped if Jon had explained that he didn’t know anything about the crash.
Other than the fact that there wasn’t one.
He wanted to hug her goodbye, but it was one thing too many to deal with.
There is no crash.
But her job was to investigate crashes and prevent crashes. Not to watch a flight to see…
Miranda knew she was in churn but—as always—couldn’t think of how to break out of the pattern whe
