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Mickey kept trying to make sense of Robin’s attack plan, but he couldn’t. It was as if she no longer fought the fire but now toyed with it instead.
When Vern had been ordered back to the airfield long before his current rotation should have arisen, Robin had once again shuffled the teams so that she and Mickey were flying together again, which was fine with him. Between the North Koreans, the approaching storm, and a wildfire, he preferred keeping her in his sights.
When Vern flashed by after his return from base, Mickey could see that Denise was aboard, which meant that when it was his turn to rotate back in about two hours, his mechanic would be off flying in North Korea. Vern and Jeannie were working the northeast flank.
And suddenly he and Robin were fighting the center of the m
