Cal stopped taking pictures and slowly turned, scanning the area. “No. The question is: Who would want to burn the Suai Airport? Ocean’s that way. Sea breeze in the night heading offshore. That’s why the fire was set inland of the airport.”
Now she could see it. Nature’s gentle breeze sweeping from the cooling land toward the still warm ocean, unaware that with its progress, it was carrying lethal fire downwind.
“C’mon.” He grabbed her arm and began dragging her back toward the helo.
“What?”
He practically threw her through her own door before latching it and racing around to his own. “Land breeze coming up!” he shouted as he jumped in beside her.
Jeannie sat there feeling stupid while her hands made sure everything was ready and cycled the engine RPMs back up.
Land breeze! She got i
