Chapter Twenty-Six
The officers took us aside in a large and empty room inside the airport building, where we sat on hard seats while waiting for them to decide what they’d do with us. We needed escorts to visit the bathroom, which was down a long hallway—I went there several times with various kids.
The kids didn’t take long to declare that they were bored, and, unlike us adults, had no inhibition to show it. The officers had not taken the bag containing the bubble device off the Pengali kids, although they’d looked at it and deemed it not dangerous. They might regret that decision.
After taking our IDs, and examining them slowly, in a different office, one by one, the officers declared that they needed to speak to a supervisor, and would take us to their head office, which was elsewhe
