She didn’t feel like celebrating. Then they were under the bridge, always a weird feeling. As they emerged, he touched the dashboard media package. "—grievous act of terrorism," the president said. "An entire busload of Turkish cadets, thirty in all, killed in an attack employing synchronized IEDs. We’ve all seen the images of the aftermath." Verity herself, with considerable effort, had so far managed not to. "In retaliation, Turkey’s army shelled Kurdish locations along the border."