They must have launched the drone from a surface ship somewhere. It couldn’t have come from their nuclear submarine—unless they had more than one, a horrible thought. The sub couldn’t have traveled fast enough to attack Galveston, Grenada, and Singapore during the time of her adventure. (She was already thinking of it as her adventure—something over, something in her past, something pre-captivity.) But America was an open country and a lot of the F.A.C.T. were Americans. They bragged openly that they could go anywhere, and she believed them.