Hot, humid air smacked him wetly in the face and he regretted his long sleeves, so necessary on the sharply air-conditioned 30-hour flight, but now an unfortunate liability. Short, dark, foreign bodies crowded past him in the airport, strange tongues filling his ears from the people and speakers all around him. Thoroughly disoriented, he looked for words or letters that he could understand to point him in the right direction.
