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Chapter 20 (c): The Eye of the Storm (II) [...Contd.]

Cahill opened the door as soon as Marcia stepped back.

“Oh Thank God!”

Peter stared at him;

//I hope he doesn’t continue his sentence with, “What took you so long..?” I might have to fire him.//

“I figured something might have changed because they stopped twitching about ten minutes ago”, he stated as he opened the door, and led through the hallway.

“It’s clean”, Peter noted.

As he gently shifted Zen his arms and walked in carefully making his way through the hallway as he carried his charge through he noted the lack of dust and debris that should have been the usual.

Cahill nodded, “They cleaned it, a competent bunch, these kids. I mean we all moved into clean housing and the dorms will always be cleaned for us, I don’t think I would have survived that first day if I had to spend my days cleaning an old abandoned building”, he muttered as they made their way into the house.

Marcia whistled, “There’s a scent of food”, she noticed.