19 Tea for Two‘Shut down all monitoring equipment but leave the satellite cover up. I think our work here is nearly done,’ De Palma ordered.
The surveillance team had been working for a straight eight hours without so much as a coffee break. The air was stale and most of the men had closed their eyes as the monitors and screens were now shut down. Dr Maier, in fact, was the only one still working as he detailed the final deteriorating vital signs of the last of the logging gang. The whole crew had finally perished as they waited for their two comrades to return. The warm desultory breeze had begun to circulate the nano-particles released from the bushes, plants and trees that had been hacked down and, as the first of the onlooking loggers began to exhibit muscle spasms, the outwardly unaf
