CHAPTER 5
13th November, 2005, Jilin City, China
The climate was not what Emilia had been expecting. It was cold for a start, which was a shame since she’d been hoping for a brief respite from the Fall temperatures in Ithaca. When she’d thought about China, she’d immediately thought high pollution but now she realised she had made a hasty, uneducated judgment. Because, at least in this part of China, the air was surprisingly clear.
The sun was just beginning to rise when they arrived and a few workers were already making their way into the chemical plant through the main entrance.
Emilia and Seb had arrived a little further down the road, their sudden appearance masked by the pre-dawn gloom – which was sheer luck, not Seb’s magic. They knew the blockage in the nitration tower had o
