[s9e5] Leave Your Emotions At The Cabin Door [TOP]

“Airspeed’s decaying,” his co-pilot, Miller, whispered. Her knuckles were white on the yoke. This was her first trans-continental flight since her father’s funeral, and Elias could see the tremor in her hands.

“Miller,” Elias said, his voice flat and robotic. “Look at me.” She turned, her eyes glassy. [S9E5] Leave Your Emotions at the Cabin Door

Elias reached over and switched off the master battery. The cockpit went dark. “Airspeed’s decaying,” his co-pilot, Miller, whispered

Captain Elias Thorne watched the altimeter drop with a sickening lurch. Outside the cockpit glass, the sky over the Andes was a bruised purple, flickering with lightning that looked like cracks in the world. “Miller,” Elias said, his voice flat and robotic

For twenty minutes, the aircraft was a metal tube of absolute, practiced coldness. No one cried because no one had the permission to. They were all holding their breath, suspended in a vacuum where emotion had been surgically removed.