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The lab Katie worked in had neither windows or clocks, just smooth concrete walls all around. Although she normally welcomed the way the lack of visual interest forced her to focus, she tended to lose her sense of time. Mornings, afternoons and evenings bled together into a solid blur of work- regular mealtimes rarely took priority in her world- ( Read more... )

Kale had been tromping around the base in his dog form, looking for something fun to do. Nothing looked fun. Not the training room, not running around outside, and not even sleeping. He stopped dead in his tracks when he could smell something. Something like his favorite food...cookies! Kale crept over to the entrance to the mess hall and saw a ( Read more... )

The steady drone of the engine and the crunch of snow under chained tires were the only sounds in the humvee as it picked its way towards the base. Katie was grateful for the lack of Russian chatter that had seemed to be omnipresent from the time her plane touched down in St. Petersburg; not knowing what anyone was saying had constantly put her on ( Read more... )