Leo sat in the back row after school, swinging his legs, watching his mother with a pride too large for his small face.

Maya turned to the whiteboard and wrote a single sentence across it in plain capital letters, and then she turned back around to face the room.

Chapter 20 — Trust the Person Beside You

The aircraft doesn’t care who you used to be.

That was the sentence on the board, and she let it sit there in the quiet while they read it and failed to understand it and waited for her to explain.

Your record won’t fly the airplane, she told them.