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Vivian never tired of watching Harvey work. The world simply moved more smoothly around him. Even as he appeared to be calming someone, he casually raised an arm to signal for her to lower the basket, pointing to the downwind side of the boat.
She already had it hooked to the winch on the pylon just outside the cargo bay door. As the basket lowered, she kept a gloved hand on the wire. Part of it was so that she could feel any frays to the cable. It also let her dampen oscillations of the swinging basket and feel what the world’s wind was doing, because it was hard to tell up here under the main rotor’s downwash.
A wave slapped the basket, threatening to drive it into the group of survivors despite her lowering it on the downwind side of the boat.
Harvey grabbed it and wrestled it int
