Break time

{if cop= true}The break has come at a good time because you need a piss. Back in the room with the food and drink, you spot one of the doors has a “Toilets” sign on it so you head through it.

The room you enter has the standard male urinals you are familiar with along one wall, and female urinals along the opposite wall. Next to the door you came through is a row of wash basins. Fortunately you only need a piss, not a shit, so you use one of the male urinals - but there are no cubicles in here, none of the conventional toilets you’re used to, and you wonder what’s going on here. You make a mental note to ask Phil about it later.

You wash and dry your hands and return to join the others.

{endif}You and the other four guys help yourselves to more food and drink and chat to each other while Phil heads into the other room. You discuss your old lives - where you lived, what you did for a living, your hobbies and interests. It all already seemed a long time ago and a long way away.

Then your thoughts turn to your partners.

“How do you think they're taking it?” asks Rob. “In fact, do you think they're telling them the same things? If so, why keep us separate?”

“Yeah, I don't think Mary would be too happy about it at all,” you reply.

“Same, Barbara would hate it,” agrees Chris. “I don't think they're getting the same briefing as us, they would be rooting if they were.”

“Yeah, so what are they telling them?” ponders Mike.

Your ponderings come to an end as Phil returns and calls you back into the meeting room.