Benito Juárez International Airport. Mexico City, Mexico.
It had been over an hour since the staff arrived.
Thomas sat with his tablet and checked things he had already confirmed.
Dr. Park had moved one of the chairs provided by the airport to face the lounge entrance and had not moved it back. She told herself it was so she could see the corridor clearly. Brenner was on his cot watching a movie on its holographic screen, though Thomas noticed he kept pausing it.
Marco was the one who actually talked. He had opened a channel to the base staff on his tablet and was passing the time asking what they were doing.
The base staff reported that the monitoring room was occupied. With the medical data analysts, the general physician on base, and the nurses all at their stations, waiting for the first volunteer data to arrive.
Then one of the base staff mentioned the closing of the bay area.
"After you left, it closed," she said.
Thomas looked up from his tablet.
