Chapter 20Sam shot up from his seat and clambered over Oriyanna. Reaching across Adam he flung up the window blind and stared out. “We're still about eight thousand feet off the ground!” he exclaimed, glancing at the dead engines in a cursory manner. “This bird will glide without its engines, but if we can make it safely to the ground from this altitude, I don't know.” He gazed down at the desert below; they might have descended a good twenty thousand feet from cruising altitude on their halted approach into Cairo, but they were still frighteningly high.
“We have two hours,” Oriyanna cut in, seeming oblivious to the crippled state of the aircraft. “In two hours, the Tabut will hold enough power to achieve singularity. Once that happens, we lose all hope of stopping the virus and saving my
