Sarah POV
I almost passed out when I came back to the plane for the last time, but the feeling of Chloe and Grace cuddling up to me and a half-can of microwaved beans got me feeling better.
Zane was relaying messages to me as I scarfed them down.
“No indication what the signal is supposed to be?” Zane asked.
“No, and I hung around for several minutes after he said he’d blow everything up, but no one said a word.”
“We know it’s not our showing we’re taking them ‘seriously,’” Travis said. “Sunrise is a good thirty minutes before our deadline.”
I thought of those children on the leader’s phone again. Were they dead? Is that what had tipped him over into madness?
“A phone, you i***t,” I said aloud. Everyone was looking at me again. “He, the leader, he had a personal smartphone in his h
