As they continued through town, Dale began getting nervous. While he hadn't had the pleasure of attending any kind of formal event of this magnitude, it seemed like the kind of event where there would be all sorts of pomp and circumstance. There were crowds waiting when the president stepped off Air Force One, and a Marine band, as well as all the security detail. . . . He looked around him: he still had his own personal security detail, the four patrolling the sky and the others keeping a healthy perimeter around him and Lyra.