The meeting was in the conference room on the third floor. It had started at two. At three-thirty the director was on the second-to-last slide and had just said something that didn't match the last three slides. He sat up a little straighter. He looked at the slide again. The pie chart had a slice for "other" that was suspiciously large. He was going to ask about the "other" category at the end. The coffee cup beside him was empty. The parking lot outside the window might as well have not existed. He leaned forward, pen poised.
