DC By the Book

Excerpt: Where, precisely, had they arrived? David nudged his sister. Their eyes met and he mouthed, “Look at the wall.” She looked up. There across the wall before them - in letters as high as she was tall – were emblazoned the words: United States Department of State Above that was the Great Seal of the United States of America, with its fiery eagle clutching an olive branch in one talon and a cluster of arrows in the other. And arrayed below it were flags: dozens and dozens of flags, representing seemingly every country in the world.