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“That’s right,” he said “Let’s just assun is on and you’re not free to move about the cabin”

The captain turned back to the controls, the copilot stared “What are you talking about?”

“Hands on the yoke,” Kurt ordered “Eyes forward”

The copilot co in Arabic to the captain

“Are you trying to take her?” the captain asked “To rescue her? You’re a fool to throw your life away for this puny woman”

“Shut up, jerk!” Leilani growled “Or, so help me, I’ll fill you full of lead!”

She looked at Kurt, s proudly “How’s that?”

“We need to work on your dialogue a bit, but not bad”

Kurt glanced out theThe horizon to the east was starting to sharpen, but the sky was still inky purple, and for the an

He could see the other two jets ahead of thehts The closest plane looked to be a ht have been three miles out and a thousand feet below the other one The whole squadron was descending He heard no trans under radio silence

“Where are you taking us?” he asked

“Don’t say anything,” the captain ordered

Kurt figured that was a dead end, he could hardly threaten to blow up the plane if they didn’t tell hih eight thousand feet Another ten minutes like that and they’d be in the drink He strained his eyes forward but still couldn’t see a speck of land

He decided they’d waited long enough “Here’s the deal,” he said “If you tant to live, you’re going to do what I say”

“What if we don’t?” the copilot spat