Glad you could join us for the next high-flying episode of Elliot’s Adventures. If you’re new here, you can catch up by returning to the beginning, and reading really fast…
With a skyward lurch, Elliot’s breakfast threatened to return for lunch. Only the soft comfort of Cassandra pressed against his side kept him from taking his chances and diving for the safety he’d left behind when he climbed onto the hawk’s back.
“Don’t you just love flying?” she asked, her eyestalks waving gently in the slipstream.
Trying to make eye contact put his gut into a spin. He focused on the horizon, the only fixed object in the world, and confessed, “I love you more.”
“Everything is so clear up here,” she effused. “The ground just rolls away and takes every bit of trouble with it.”
He didn’t want to contradict her, but he was sure he’d brought some of the trouble with him, and it was about to erupt.
“Look at that, Elliot, my love — we’re soaring with the majestic Travelers!”
He looked. The sky and earth blurred just before they went black.
To be continued. . .
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Space, Time, and Raspberries 
The description of Elliot’s air sickness is the funniest description of that condition I have seen. Cassandra takes it all in stride and reminds me of a real (but extraordinary) person:
https://mellowcurmudgeon.com/2017/08/09/semper-fi/
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Thanks, Barry! I’m happy to know you appreciate the humor. Thanks, too, for the link to Amy McGrath’s website. Somehow, I hadn’t yet been exposed to her viral video. Her website is all that you say, and believe America would do well to send only extraordinary people with similar experience, determination, and sense of honor to Congress. All the best to her and her campaign!
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Love Cassandra – such an adventuress!
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Thank you, Samantha! I’m sure Elliot loves that about her, too. Too bad it hasn’t inspired a love of flying in Elliot as well.
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