You keep it level because character is not what the room recognizes.

Character is what remains after the room has misunderstood you.

Eleven years after the crash, Ghost One flew over Second Troop again.

Not as a memory.

Not as a memorial.

As an aircraft commander with living people depending on her hands.

My chest was tight.

My leg ached.

The empty seat was still empty in all the ways that mattered.

But the instruments were steady, the crew was ready, and the darkness ahead belonged to us.

I placed both hands on the controls.

Then I heard Aaron’s voice exactly as I remembered it.

“Keep her level, Ghost.”

So I did.

I still do.

THE END!

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