He thought that perhaps Virginia might secretly try to see the kids, and if she did, somewhere close to school would be the logical place for her to camp out. She could find them through the crowds and watch them from a distance, disappearing quickly if she was spotted. She also had access to food and water here, but unfortunately, unlike in the immediate Food-Corp area, the garages were not heated. Unless she had on layers of heavy clothes, she wouldn’t be able to survive the freezing nighttime temperatures for long. George knew that the chances were slim he would spot her there, but his assumption that she would join the small homeless population in the hallways outside Food-Mart had proved incorrect and he was running out of ideas. Where else would she go? Where else could she go? Having lost his shuttle pass sometime during the night, likely to a sly homeless person who pretended to be interested in Virginia’s photo, George took the pedestrian tunnels across the district. The walk from the central area to the Corp Education System’s buildings took him the better part of the morning.
