Chapter 74 Settling In

• The little office Joe Simmons led me to was a tiny enclosure, in one corner of the large office space. It was separated from the other people in the room because it was a tiny cubicle with solid walls.
• I looked about curiously at the other people working in the large room, which had computers on desks, monitors and enormous screens on walls and wires trailing everywhere. A few faces watched me curiously and I smiled back hesitantly. A bespectacled, young man , with a mop of ginger hair, grinned back. He was closer in age to me, I figured, maybe in his early twenties. Another couple of women, also around the same age, nodded at me. The rest of the people in the room were mostly older and they flicked glances at me disinterestedly before getting back to their work. I noticed a couple of the women watching St Just as he strode out of the room, without glancing my way.
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