The sudden decision to send over a scientist pushed them to their limits. The dome and most of its equipment had been heavily damaged in the fighting. The only thing left completely intact was the Portal dais itself. Osgood insisted on pushing back the schedule to the afternoon to allow the recording instruments to be put in order. Now the time was drawing near they still weren’t ready. He noticed a few more people entering the already crowded dome and was about to chase them out when he realized that one of them was Leo Skinner. With a bounce in his step, he hurried over to greet him. “So glad you could stay, Leo.” “Thrilled,” the professor said, shaking the offered hand heartily. “I came up here on the pretext of helping get you folks free from the cult, but the NSA people managed without my help.” “You met Mark Volant yet? He’s the one who’s been snapping the whip. He was shot to shit and blown up in the fighting.
