Family
“We bumped on the final touchdown and I heard the engines throttle down, the rotors coming to a slow stop as several loud, clunking noises came from the rear of the craft. Smoke had been belching out of it the whole way home, but Reed’s wind had blown that clear of us and we only knew about it because of the pilot’s occasional warnings.
I breathed a little sigh of relief when I felt that last shudder of the aircraft’s weight being taken up by the earth, and I closed my eyes for a beat before I o...pened them to look out the door. Ariadne was waiting, as was Dr. Perugini, Dr. Zollers, a couple of people I’d seen Perugini use before as orderlies, and my most favoritest person in the world, Michael Mormont. Eve lurked behind them, looking around as if searching for the ambush that was sure to fall on us at any moment. A couple of agents were visible in the distance, but I couldn’t see their faces from where they stood outside the field of spotlights that illuminated the helicopter pad.MoreLess
I breathed a little sigh of relief when I felt that last shudder of the aircraft’s weight being taken up by the earth, and I closed my eyes for a beat before I o...pened them to look out the door. Ariadne was waiting, as was Dr. Perugini, Dr. Zollers, a couple of people I’d seen Perugini use before as orderlies, and my most favoritest person in the world, Michael Mormont. Eve lurked behind them, looking around as if searching for the ambush that was sure to fall on us at any moment. A couple of agents were visible in the distance, but I couldn’t see their faces from where they stood outside the field of spotlights that illuminated the helicopter pad.MoreLess
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