The plane from Vienna arrived at Dulles Airport right around four p.m. and Priest and Aggie deplaned along with the other passengers, riding the people-mover to the international reception terminal and customs desk. They used their Global Entry passes to get past the long lines of tourists, processing through the incoming lines in only a few minutes, then gathered their luggage from the rotating rack.
While he stood waiting for his bags, Priest thought back to Alana, their argument and its resolution, how his mission might have caused her death, and how she still forgave him – still believed in him – and he had to fight back tears. There was so much he wanted to say to her, so much that they had to discuss and resolve, and this quick trip back to the States was delaying him from doing tha
