AwayEveryone arose before sunup the next morning to get ready for the mission, though Voi was the first awake, since she couldn’t sleep. Alex and Ronny had set up a communications station in an unused closet upstairs. Milia took one of the two trucks that were parked outside to deal with unspecified business, leaving the others to walk Voi to the barn and wish her a safe flight.
Voi hopped into the cockpit after her exterior pre-flight check then stopped, glancing to either side where the others stood. Laura looked worried, and Ronny seemed to be bothered by, well, something. A heavy feeling sat at the pit of Voi’s stomach, and she placed a hand over it.
“Everything looking shipshape?” Andre called out.
Voi nodded, double checking the control panel.
“It’s almost like you’re back to bar
