I think I want to see it. He said, I've been trying to figure out what that says about me. I haven't landed on an answer. Maybe it doesn't say anything, she said. Maybe you're just curious.
Maybe, he said. He didn't sound entirely convinced. Can I ask you something? She said, "You're going to anyway." She almost smiled.
"That morning in the hangar, after I fired you and you were walking out, you didn't say anything. You just gathered your tools and left." "Yeah." "What were you thinking?" He took a moment with it.
"I was thinking that you were going to feel bad about it later," he said. "Not because I thought you were a good person or a bad person. Just the report was already in the system. The truth was already documented and you were going to find it and you were going to feel exactly as bad as you should feel. Were you angry?
Yeah, he said, "But it was it was a specific kind of angry, not at you exactly. At the fact that it was possible, that somebody could walk into a room and decide that fast and be that wrong and have enough authority that nobody could stop it." He paused. I've seen that before, not directed at me. I've seen it directed at other people and I've watched what it did to them and I've thought for years that if it ever happened to me I would I don't know fight it more visibly.
He stopped. But when it actually happens you just pick up your tools because there's nothing else to do. Sloan said because there's nothing else to do. He agreed. And because Mia had school in 4 hours and I needed to go home and sleep.
She looked at her desk for a moment. I'll see you tomorrow. She said yeah. He said, "You will." Quote, "The hangar held approximately 200 people when it was full, which it had never been in Sloan's memory for any purpose other than a crisis or a very large delivery event.
On the Friday morning she had scheduled, it came close to that." The main floor was crowded in the specific way of spaces that weren't designed for standing audiences. People found positions near equipment and along the walls and in front of open bay doors, and the elevated walkways along the east side held a row of people who had come down from the upper level offices when the word had gone around that attendance was not technically mandatory, but was also not something people were choosing to miss. She had asked that the AR7 meridian be moved to the adjacent bay and that the space in front of the main floor be kept clear. She hadn't explained why.