Four days after his return, he saw a notice requesting all participants in Project Banknote to report for a special meeting at fourteen hundred the next day. His spirits rose instantly. For one thing, this would be a chance to find out whether his friends were still alive; for another, it would let him know specifically what the army expected of him now that the experiment was over. He arrived early for the meeting and took a seat near the back door of the room so he could see people as they entered.
This room was far smaller than the large auditorium where he’d first heard about Project Banknote; there was only seating for forty people, at most. Of course, that didn’t mean much; perhaps most of the sleepers were still over in China, or perhaps some of them had been shipped to other bases
