You fly it.

He looked at her, and something in his shoulders eased a fraction, because she had just given him the one thing a commander needs most in a crisis and most rarely gets, which is a competent person who knows exactly the edges of what they are and are not.

They built the approach between them in the shorthand of two professionals who had never met an hour ago, trading numbers and callouts, dividing the work the way it was meant to be divided.

And Maya found, settling into the rhythm of it, that the thing she had been most afraid of all these months was not fear at all.