Helix Wars

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Genres: Fiction
“Find a seat up front,” he whispered to her as they left the terminal building, “and I’ll join you as soon as I can.”
She shouldered her bag and followed him across the hot tarmac to the silver arrowhead of the shuttle. For a second she wondered if Jeff might be the pilot, then recalled he was taking a month’s furlough.
She climbed the steps and moved down the walkway between the seats, lodging her bag on an aisle seat at the front and taking the window seat for herself. She strapped herself in
... and stared through the slit-screen, watching the pre-flight activity of a dozen men and women as they scurried round the shuttle then backed off as countdown began.
Ten minutes later the shuttle canted on its gantry, and she fell back in her seat and gripped the arm-rests, closing her eyes as the engines roared in a deafening crescendo and the shuttle blasted from the tarmac.
Only after two minutes, with the ground safely diminished to the aspect of an architect’s scale model far below, did she open her eyes and stare out.
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