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"Next deck," Allie whispered He obeyed

The first passenger deck arine roo up to the top level, which was open to the snowy day Now, through thisthrough it

But when Allie scanned the waters she was shocked to see the McGill’s ship was no longer there! She could see nothing but the shore of Staten Island in the distance She panicked for athrough his eyes, she rehost ship

She stepped out of hi out of an overcoat, and the second she did, the nature of the world changed again The McGill’s ship reappeared now that she was viewing the world through her own ghostly eyes The McGill’s ship was off to the right, but the ferry wastoo fast At this rate the ferry would pass in front of it, not co any closer than a hundred yards!

Filled with a sense of fury and despair, she turned to the old ferry pilot, but he was no longer there She found hie She hurried after hiht back into the old man, stealthily

I world, as he opened the door to the bridge, and went in

The ferry’s bridge was ser pilot was at the controls

"Winds are killer today," said the younger ferrys more aerodynamic"

"Yah," said the old lanced over at hi? "

"Nah, nah," he said, "it’s just…nothing, I don’t know So her Even though she was hiding beneath the threshold of his understanding, he was feeling the hint of her presence A plan was for aware of her, she would have to make her move quickly, or it would be too late

"Tell him to take his break early," Allie demanded "Take over the controls"

Suddenly Allie felt the body of the oldfor so bite yah?" asked the younger pilot "I’ll tell yah, the bugs here don’t know it’s winter They breed down in the engine room, and crawl up here between the bulkheads"

"Do it!" Allie insisted "Take control of the ferry now!"

But the old hts and Allie knew she had been exposed

-- who are you? what do you want?-- In her panic, she considered leaping out of hiht into the other pilot--but she had never done a person-to-person leap before No, it was best to stay where she was and ith the old h her thoughts

"That doesn’t matter," she told hie course"

"No!" He said it aloud, this time

The other man looked at hi," he said "At least not the kind you’re talking about"

The other guy didn’t knohat to make of it, so he just turned his attention forward

"Never ht "You have to take the wheel! You have to change course!"

But he wouldn’t That’s when Allie made a calculated h she was a stranger in his skin, her sense of touch didn’t seem as numb as it had before Maybe…just maybe… Allie thrust a hand forward and found that the hand ers quivered as two spirits struggled to control it, but in the end Allie won She wasn’t just , and could use this rasped the shoulder of the younger pilot and spoke, but when her voice came out it was the dry, raspy voice of a arettes a day his whole life

"You can go below," Allie heard herself say in the old er ferryument He nodded and left, happy for sohts, the old pilot clawed for control of his liain

"Patience!" Allie told him "Patience, it will be over soon"

But that only made him more terrified