INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT: OPERATIVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES STAGE TWO OF CHALLENGE…SUCCESS RATING UPDATED: 79%
STAGE THREE
Once inside the compound, I was taken to a squat prefabricated building with brilliant-white walls.
'You can take off your mask now,' said Hewitt. 'Don't worry. The air in and around the Facility is clean, filtered and regulated.'
While dubious, I did as he said, removing my breathing apparatus, encountering no respiratory problems whatsoever.
'If you could strip down to your underwear now,' he asked, 'we can then weigh and measure you.'
After doing so, he checked my heart rate and blood pressure, applied calipers to my skull and measured the circumference of my cranium.
'What's this all about?' I asked, feeling increasingly discomforted by the whole situation, how I was reliving experiences Ransome had set out in his journal.
