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Miranda lay in Terence’s guest bedroom but couldn’t sleep no matter how badly she needed to. Being awake for two nights and three days should have knocked her out as well.
She and Terence usually got together when she came to Washington—which wasn’t all that often. She did her best to work from the Seattle office when she had to report in at all. She mostly lived out in the field or on the family island in Washington State.
His wife had left him twenty years ago, before Miranda had even joined the NTSB, and he seemed to appreciate the company. She appreciated coming to a safe and familiar place whenever she was in DC.
The life of a top NTSB investigator, by its very nature, included a great deal of unpredictable travel that happened with no notice and continued for an unguessable du
