Captain Brightman strode up and looked at the frozen tableau. “What’s the status? Can we clean this up yet?”
No one answered. Susan wasn’t sure what to say.
“What the hell is going on here?”
Mike shushed her.
She prepared to argue, but Mike shushed the captain again.
“I need that tail section,” Miranda came back to life so abruptly that they all twitched in surprise.
“Miranda, where it broke off and snagged in the superstructure? It’s probably too dangerous to recover outside of a naval shipyard.” Susan still couldn’t believe that Miranda and Holly had crawled into that precarious area to inspect the damage.
“Andi?” Miranda asked.
Andi Wu turned, not to Miranda, but to look upward toward the damaged Island above as if she could see it through the steel of the Flight Deck’s undersid
