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Chapter 60: A Very Serious Conversation

Author: Crown Imagination
last update publish date: 2026-06-20 17:49:07

Afternoon came quickly that day. After leaving the children's shelter, Natasha spent several hours helping coordinate the transfer of supplies that had arrived from the airport. The recovered aviation fuel was already being moved into secure storage, drums lined in neat rows along the depot wall, while mechanics and engineers crowded around a makeshift table covered in route maps, arguing good-naturedly over which roads were safest for the next convoy. New Haven felt more alive than ever.

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