5
Dominic was lauding over the spoils of the day, watching everything being stashed away in the bowels of Tower Place. ‘This is phenomenal,’ he enthused, summoning up more energy than the other three hundred or so people in the base combined. ‘Look at all this stuff.’
‘It’s really not all that, Dom,’ Mihai tried to explain, but Dominic was having none of it.
‘This is just one day’s work. By the time we’ve cleared as much of the area as we plan to and we’ve collected everything of value, we should be well placed.’
‘For a few weeks, maybe.’
Dominic looked stung. ‘Why do you always have to be so bloody negative all the time?’
‘I’m not being negative, I’m being realistic.’
‘Pessimistic, more like. Just humour me, Mihai, what’s the grand total? How much stuff did we actually bring back t
