Jack smiled as the jumper rose into the air, shooting straight up for a while before he leveled it off and started heading upward at a more oblique angle. Outside, the sky turned from the pink-laced blue of early morning to the white of the cloud layer. Soon, it would be dark blue, and then black and full of stars, and they would get their first
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Besides, shouldn't they be starting to fly a grid pattern about now? Glancing down at the panel in front of her, Enid saw that they were continuing to gain altitude, at a significant rate.
"You... will be leveling off shortly, yes?" she asked
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"Of... of course," she said eventually, and then covered her embarrassment by focusing intently on the readings she was taking.
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"This never gets old," Jack breathed.
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And as for herself... Enid was having a hard time convincing herself it was real. It shouldn't be so hard, she reflected, and it wasn't as if she'd not done far more remarkable things in the last few months, but this sight, out the window of the jumper, made it all both more and less real.
"It isn't..." she began hesitantly, "as if I haven't been in space before now.... but this... it feels much more real... and much more impossible."
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