Krista is waiting in an airport for her plane to begin boarding. She is traveling alone. The sky is grey and looks stormy out the windows. She remembers it looking perfect when she was outside. She is sharing an armrest with a blonde woman.

Krista observes airport attendants and policemen patrolling the area. They appear to be worried. The plane is delayed for an hour because of stormy weather. Krista goes to the bathroom and leaves her bag unattended. She has no valuables with her. She realizes she is on her period. There are no menstrual products for her to use. The power goes out but shortly comes back on.

Officers address the crowd and explain that it is only a temporary outage.

She thinks about recently losing her job. Her parents want her to go home to Maine but she does not intend to.

It is completely dark out now. Krista decides to go outside for a walk as the flight was delayed another hour. She walks enough so she can see the airport from a distance. She thinks about how she used to daydream about running away so things appeared small and at a distance. She sits down on a bench facing the airport and falls asleep.

A policeman wakes her up and asks if she is okay. He says that she must go back inside because of the approaching storm. Krista thinks the sky looks strange and wonders when the storm will come.

Everyone watches her as she comes back to take a seat in the lounge of the airport. The flight is delayed another hour. An attendant says there are technical difficulties and that local authorities are asking everyone to stay inside. The room changes temperature when the word authorities is uttered. Everyone in the lounge seems on edge.

Everyone begins pressing the attendant for information. A mother asks her if she saw anything when she was outside. Krista answers no. Other people begin questioning Krista.

The police arrive at the airport thirty minutes later. In the parking lot, they appear to be wearing thick gas masks. Everyone begins to make different speculations. One man causes a scene by yelling and cursing. Krista goes to the bathroom to rest alone. A young girl runs past her bleeding from the mouth after drinking from the water fountain.

The attendant returns and says the police are here to secure the airport. He says there will be a tunnel to guide people into the plane from the boarding area as a precaution—though he does not say what it is a precaution from.

Krista thinks about how she is the only person traveling alone. Krista thinks about criticisms that her mother gave her about being fussy and fearful as a child. Krista thinks about her tendency to assume people dislike her. She tries to calm herself down by reading but feels too sick.

The blonde lady asks if she is ill. Krista says no. She does not tell them she is on her period. The blonde lady asks her if she picked something up outside. She asks her multiple other pestering questions.

Krista excuses herself to go to the bathroom. She sits in the stall. She looks out the window and sees the men in masks looking around—though it just looks like they are pretending to search for something. A man’s voice calls out to her. It is the blonde’s husband. Krista thinks his voice is wrong and that it does not match his words. She had been in the bathroom for a while, and he wanted to make sure she was okay. He says they have questions for her.

They go back to the lounge, and everyone is looking at Krista’s stuff. They had opened her luggage while she was in the bathroom. They accuse her of being sick and odd for going outside before the attack; going to the restroom 5-6 times, and being completely alone without making any calls. They also find a stain on her seat. Krista feels herself becoming suspicious of her own behavior, even though she is not doing anything wrong or abnormal. Krista speaks up and defends herself.

The group asks if she thinks she is more important than everyone else. As Krista begins to say she is just as important, the power goes out and Krista feels someone approaching her.