Chapter 15
Thursday evening, December 3rd
Muskingum County Convention Center
The two young women stood by, waiting as one cake after another came out of the box truck, onto the lift. Theirs was the next to the last to be unloaded. When they were called, they rode the lift back up to the open maw of the semi-trailer and walked toward the back.
That far in, it was hard to see if the sculpted cake had suffered any damage in the couple of miles it had been transported from the school to the convention center but Hannah held her breath until they hoisted it onto a rolling cart with the help of the driver and moved it out to the lift, in the light.
She inspected it over the 15 seconds it took to get from the front of the trailer, down to the loading dock on the slow-moving lift. Pristine. S
