Volcano Watch

EPILOGUE

We’re busier than water on rock, and after work today I’ll fill a thermos with coffee and catch the shuttle to L.A. to catch a redeye to Taiwan to examine soil particles caught in a batch of black-market microchips. It promises to be an interesting case — one that will not raise my blood pressure.

Statistically, though, somewhere down the line a case is bound to come along that will grab me, again, in the heart. That’s the one my ghosts will be watching.

That’s the one I both dream of and dread.