WAITING
“Time’s up!” Luke clapped loudly to reinforce his point. “We’re going home!”
From that moment on, things were frantic. Sylvia and Ben had to massage the final data and get it ready for upload. All the other scientists supported them and also helped Mac. Cormac was instructed to burn everything that could possibly be burned and that wasn’t essential for reporting home on top of the hill. Ben was sent to do the rounds, by himself, and to check they had left nothing behind, anywhere.
“We don’t have any indications of problems from the town, do we?” Luke looked across at Artemisia.
“Nothing I’ve been told,” she said. She couldn’t admit that there was no-one to do the telling.
“Good. We’ll start the fires at once. It’s going to take days to deal with all this stuff.”
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