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The Free Crow’s left thruster fired up against the nao bay where it scorched a streak of peeling paint and straining, warping ine chewed hard at the unimportant bits of the latched-on ship, but the ships were bound together like buether

Hainey’s thrusters had been cut at the collision, and inertia pushed the ships together in a ballroom sway that made a wide arch away from the temporary docks Locked as they were, the ships ht thrusters on the Free Crow blasted out a full-power explosion--jerking both the vessels and tightening the gyre until the ships were siether, a thousand feet above the plains

Within the na solid, and Simeon even closed his eyes He said, "Sir, I don’t know if I can--"

"You can take it," Hainey told hi down"

"Down?" Lae the answer

"Down," the captain affirot here; it’s…hang on Jesus, just hang on"

The landscape rotated in the windshield, pirouetting first to the brown grasslands below, and then to the brilliant blue and white sky, and then back to the horizon line, which leaped alar up so fast

In gli and crashing, Hainey saw a tiny corner of the Free Crow’s front panel and he could spy, through the glass, a tu terror on the deck of his beloved ship--and it pleased hi productive of the frantic -haired ht’ve been an Indian He saw a helht; and for a ht’ve been wrong

The ground lurched up and the na else to be seen out through the windshield and the end was h Hainey covered his head with his hands and Sis and ducking his own head too

And a tearing, ripping, snapping noise was acco sensation

"What was that?" Lamar shrieked

No one knew, so no one answered--not until the second loud breaking launched the na it into the sky

"The cables!" Hainey hollered, calling attention to the proble about it "Thrusters, air brakes, all of it, on, now!" He slapped at the buttons to ignite the thrusters again and tried to orient hiht and it was flying as if clipped fro, but destined to fall and to skid

The thrusters burped to life and Hainey airound, wherever he could spot it

Siht under us"

"I’ on it!" Hainey told hiravity and torque of the broken hook cables, and the doard spiral cut itself off with an ear-splitting, ski the prairie that jolted all three round, and the men’s bodies were battered in their seats; the dust and earth scraped into the engines, into the burned cargo bay, and into the bridge; and in another round itself to a stop while the so-called Cleered across the sky towards Kansas City

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