She did not need the cap tested to know what it had held, and she did not want it tested here; she wanted it bagged and untouched and handed to people whose job that was, on the ground, where evidence becomes something a court can use.

Leave it exactly where it is, she said.

Don’t let anyone near it.

We are not going to solve this up here.

We are going to land, and then we are going to let the right people take all of it apart.

Chapter 10 — The Right Seat

The decision to begin down could not wait for comfort.

Maya looked at the fuel and the weather and the unconscious man and said the thing they both already knew: we go now, while we still have the fuel to choose, not later when the storm chooses for us.