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A View from AboveSABIAN TURNED BACK, as much as the piloting chair straps let him.
“Is everybody secured?” he asked.
Lupianne was similarly fastened on the copilot seat, with her father and Vincent behind her. The straps entwined her firmly but gently, without impairing her breathing or preventing her to move her arms.
Two shiny wires rose from the console terminated by a flat head. They snaked in the air until one of them linked itself to Sabian’s military implant. The other plunged low over the console and landed on another part, with a short clapping sound.
A few seconds drifted by as Lupianne twisted back to check on her father. Romain had finished fastening himself and sat straight and tense. He bore the expression he had when doing a particularly repulsive
