Chapter Twenty-Nine
23 YEARS LATER
Training room two in Shelter 87 had been re-configured for the evening’s Senate meeting. The Senate gathered once every other week unless something unusual required an additional session. The half-hour meetings usually went twice as long as planned because there was always socializing on both sides of the meeting time.
As Lucy headed down the passageway that led to the training room, she thought about the upcoming meeting. The Senate President had instructed everyone to arrive early and plan for the meeting to go late. While most of the others attending the meeting were coming into this blind, Lucy wasn’t. Her husband, Chief, and son, Tyler, worked on the XTeam; an XTeam existed in each of the shelters. While everyone had heard of them, very few knew w
