Chapter FiveWell, two things. They’d also never died together but, odds on, they were about to.
She didn’t dare take a hand off either of the controls, so she couldn’t do anything to prepare for the jump except rehearse the steps in her head: release controls, punch harness release with one hand, then yank out the helmet’s umbilical cord while opening the door with the other. Thankfully, she and Silvan were already wearing inflatable life vests on top of their standard gear.
With her left thumb she flicked the landing light switch on the end of the collective control. The sudden glare revealed a nightmare landscape of sheeting spray and breaking waves covered with foaming spindrift.
A wave crested fifty feet below her.
No time to grab anything, just enough to—
Down in the trough was w
