Chapter 50

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byRats are not scared of heights. It’s a known fact. I’m a rat; ipso facto, I’m not scared of heights. Rats are not scared of heights. It’s a known fact. I’m a ratI’m not scared of heights.I risked a glance out the plane’s front viewport and gulped. The sprawling Ohio grasslands, lush and green and two miles straight down, were enough to make my heart palpitate and my head throb. Leaning back, pressing my eyes shut, I groaned and felt like throwing up. Rat or not, I hated high places. Fortunately it was overcast today. I banked up and into a cloud. With the windows masked in vapor I could imagine myself safely back on Earth, in a simu-chamber, and navigate strictly by instruments. Less than two hundred miles to go. I studied a sky chart. I might even make it. Cutting power, I let us gli

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