The flight west was mercifully brief. The weather was the comfortable cool of early fall. Fields were full of automated combines doing whatever it was they did to the golden grain. Joe picked up a driver and headed out to the Reserve.
Joe had looked over the local police report on the flight. Harry Destir had called in the authorities after the Principal had died. The investigation found missing segments from the surveillance tapes. The locals had concluded something had been going on between the Principal and the missing student - not an uncommon problem, as staff weren't given the same medications as the students.
He was met by a youngish teacher, who introduced himself as Harry Destir. For someone so young he didn't talk very much, just showed Joe to the Principal's office and left,
