20
Patty kept trying to think of ways to make the time pass, because as far as she could tell her watch had stopped working. Counting to a hundred took less than a minute. Counting to a thousand…she always peeked somewhere in the two hundreds.
The helo was immaculate. She’d long since memorized the operations manual. She considered pulling out her personal smartphone and reading an e-book she had stored on it. Except that would kill her night vision and she wanted to be ready the second they returned.
Of course that wasn’t even physically possible yet.
Her laggard watch insisted that, if they were still on schedule, they’d reached the base only twenty-three-and-a-half minutes ago.
Nothing from Sofia who would be watching from above. Of course she wasn’t supposed to transmit even a squ
