Travel
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Charlie was exhausted, first endless meetings.
Then hours on a military transport to well ‘here’ though he wasn’t quite sure where’ here’ was.
Everyone was trying to help
Did he need anything, could they help?
But any mention of phoning home was met with gently apologies
“Sorry that’s not possible at the moment” or “for emergency only”
The work was endless as he finished one equation more data would arrive.
Leaving his boards he walked up to the perimeter of the camp.
Beyond was a landscape of sand and distant mountains which may as well have been a different world.