“Bye, Kendra.”

I hung up the heavy handset.

The line went dead with a click.

I stared at the bare wooden wall of the booth for a long minute before stepping back out into the fading heat.

At ten that night the base was completely dark apart from the amber security lights on the perimeter fences.

I sat by myself in the comms office and opened my laptop.

I went around the military network and logged into the private cloud drive Martinez had helped me set up.