Eagle in the Sky

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Ease back on the wheel.

And they were airborne, climbing swiftly away from the earth.

Gently, said Barney. Don't freeze on to the controls.

Treat her like, he broke off. He had been about to liken the aircraft

to a woman, but realized the unsuitability of the simile. Treat her

like a horse. Ride her light Instantly he felt David's death-grip on

the wheel relax, the touch repeated through his own controls.

That's it, David. He glanced sideways at the boy, and felt a flare of

disappointment. He had felt deep down in his being that this one might

be bird, one of the very rare ones like himself whose natural element

was the blue. Yet here in the first few moments of flight the child was

wearing an expression of frozen terror. His lips and nostrils were

trimmed with marble white and there were shadows in the dark blue eyes

like the shape of sharks moving beneath the surface of a summer sea.

Left wing up, he snapped, disappointed, trying to shock him out of it.