then later , as she was entering the final hours , the rumor came around that the hospital had been turned into a rendezvous point , a kind of survivor safe house , far enough from town to be reasonably safe in the next wave , whatever that was going to be ( though the smart money was on some kind of aerial bombardment ) , but close enough for the people in charge to find when they came to rescue us-if there were people in charge and if they came .