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"We do evacuation drills and infection simulations every month in order to minimize the loss of life in case of an outbreak," said Kelly "There are differences between offices, but they’re reasonably e Plus, they shuttle us to different offices once a year to run evacuation trials there, toup on familiar landmarks"
"What, like the white door, the white door, or, that old favorite, the white door?"
Kelly cracked a slight, brief-lived s how much two identical halls can differ when you work in them every day for a year orbut the architecture"
"Dhat mean you have entire installations memorized?" asked Alaric, suddenly interested Kelly nodded "Could you draw asoftware?"
"I think so Why?"
"Because that may not be our last trip into the CDC, and I’d rather we didn’t need to count on an open phone line to get us out next tiet her that drafting software and see if you can find soainst"
"The public databases won’t have the eency access tunnels," said Kelly
"It’s still never a bad idea to have a backup plan" I flashed her a toothy smile "Besides, the public databases will have full blueprints of the general-access areas, and that should be enough to jog your memory It’s not that I don’t trust you to tell us the truth as you see it, Doc It’s just that after e learned fros out if you think they’re too sensitive for us"
Her expression hardened For a e my authority The others saw it, too: Alaric pushed his chair back froie and Becks both stoppedsolely to Kelly The house seely, Kelly shook her head
"Fair enough We’re in this together, whether we like it or not I guess we’re all going to need to learn how to trust each other"
"There’s the spirit," I said
"I just have one question," said Alaric "Hoe know the CDC isn’t going to run an audio coure out that Kelly’s still alive? The last thing we need is anotherout where we are The is second to last, at best" I pushed uess we’ll need to keep an eye on the news feeds, see whether anything co us of identity theft"
"Can you steal your own identity?" asked Kelly
"Guess we’ll find out" Becks moved to take my seat as I stepped away "Becks, you need to update as soon as you finish eating I’e loaded to the server Alaric, I want you cleaning and screenshotting inside the hour"
"Got it," said Alaric
"I’ve got a few poeie "I’ for Dave, which is why I’, spooky old house"
"Good," I said "Doc, ith Mahir and get started on another post about whatever the hell psychology crap you’re writing about See if you can come up with a plausible excuse for e don’t have a picture of you I don’t want anyone getting overzealous and looking for you in the public broadcast footage"
"All right"
I grabbed another Coke fro rooue withbut help e was still quiet, her normally constant presence numbed to a dull ache at the back of my skull It didn’t hurt, precisely It just felt weird as hell
The coated the coly overfull of spas that would atory elevator pitches on places I should go and dead things I should bother Soet me back into the field What they don’t understand--and I can’t tell theood Irwin: I’ any fun When I wind up in the field, it’s a chore to be survived, not an adventure to be relished Without that little spark of gosh-golly- to driveDon’t think I don’t see the irony George is the one who stopped breathing, but I’ a mess as I’d expected fro to be six places at once, and failing pretty spectacularly I sat back for a few e notifications as they popped up next to thread after thread The tea to prove their credentials by doing the sort of shit job that George and I used to do back ere still bylines on the Bridge Supporters site In those days, we couldn’t think of anything antedthe stories anted to tell, not answering to anybody but ourselves