She views this building like churchgoers view their sanctuary. Here lie answers. Solutions. Strategies. Rapid responses. Death happens, yes, but here it makes sense. Here they can do something to stem the black tide of horror that lives beneath the glistened surface of the city that never sleeps. Fires and floods, storms and crashes, blackouts, pandemics, and terrorist attacks. It’s a numbers game and they do what they can. The reality of this, the pure rationality, energizes Esme.
