Adair swiveled the pilot’s seat around and said, “Okay, we’re above the coordinates you gave me. You want to look around?”
Vapula laid down her hand of cards on the small table in the passenger cabin of the P-6 and unbuckled her seat harness.
Ruth slapped her cards on the table face up and laughed. “Oh sure! We’re gonna quit right when I was finally going to win a hand!”
Hovard chuckled. “Aww, duty’s a bloated bovine, huh!”
As she stepped toward the cockpit, Vapula shot Hovard an amused peek.
Ipos reached across the table and flipped Vapula’s cards over. “Well, well, well. We can sure see why she was so eager to end this game.”
Over her shoulder, Vapula sassed, “What? You don’t think that hand was a winner?”
She leaned over Adair to get a better look at the terrain below. “Yeah, thi
