"I've got calls to make, then. You give me the details later."
"Goodby."
Julia hung up.
She felt elation. She went to the window and breathed deeply. The air was exciting.
Two hours later, she was in a staff car speeding toward an experimental laboratory on the outskirts of town.
She was hustled inside the building by a sergeant and a colonel; gray, cloudy dawn hovered in the east.
Dr. Norvel was already waiting.
"Let's go to work," the doctor said.
"Right."