The Captain Knew Me Before the Passenger Did

Not gone.

Worse.

Unreliable.

That little dead feeling.

I looked at Warren. “You froze.”

He gave one embarrassed nod. “I absolutely did.”

“I yelled at you.”

“You did that too.”

Back then I’d barked, “Either panic later or die now. Pick one.”

A terrible thing to say to a kid in training. It worked.

He kept his hands where I told him to keep them. He read the gauges.continue reading …