The Captain Knew Me Before the Passenger Did

gray than I remembered. Deep lines around the eyes. Airline stripes on the shoulders instead of a flight suit. But the voice. The voice hit first.

“Raven Six,” he said softly.

That did it.

Nobody had called me that since I left the service.

I stared at him and the cabin blurred around the edges for a second. “Chief Warren?”

His face cracked open in this continue reading …