Chapter 45 Shit! What Have I Done?

• The driver stopped under the glass overhang of the TKD building at 8:41.
• I stepped out with my bag and the first-day feeling I had not wanted to have. The lobby was all pale stone and quiet motion. At the security desk I started to explain myself and was already being waved through before I could say a word.
• An access card waited with my name printed cleanly on it. Benedict Alexandrescu had announced my arrival. The officer said it the way people said facts that had come from high enough not to be questioned.