there was a nervy atmosphere of anticipation at the prospect of the baggage reunion to come , and a communal feeling of paranoia as everyone experienced the anxiety that theirs would be the suitcase that had been left behind , or re-routed via ulan bator , and that they would be left alone , deserted by their fellow travelling kin , to face the bureaucratic maze of lost luggage forms unaided , from that time onwards , forever to be tarnished , in this new land , by the embarrassing stigma of initial rejection .