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The Captain : 1st Night - 5
It's almost one o'clock in the morning. I hope Merry and Sukey are asleep if they're on the road. Our approach to the town takes us over an industrial area with oil tanks beside the road. We pass over a wide overpass. Sesile flies a circle, but all is quiet down below. The camera remains silent.
Sesile turns to look at me. “This is as far as we go, Captain. I have orders to turn round at Beaufort West once I’ve grid-searched it, and head back to Cape Town. Captain Maud is waiting for more information to come in from the searches in the Cape Flats. She doesn't want to waste resources on what could be a wild goose chase if they’ve gone in a different direction from Joburg.”
“But we could be almost on them. Can't you fly on a little further?”
“More than my j
