"You know nothing!" Collin erupted at Constance's words. "My people have been given no warning! No chance to prepare. Look!" He bellowed, pointing down to the world below. The landscape below them was fragmenting as it rose, a far cry from the huge landmasses they were familiar with. "Down there is family! Friends! People, with lives of their own!"
It was like having a devil and an angel on his shoulders, but Edward didn't know which was which. Constance wanted to bail, but Luna insisted they didn't. Edward had never planned for this to happen when he'd left the U.I. It was stupidly overdramatic, more like an adventure novel than something he wanted to be a part of. "We can't just abandon them," he shouted over the noise.
He looked over at Conway, still hovering at their level. "We should get off the tower! Jump to the Endurance!"
"How?" asked Raymond. "You're expecting Juliette to jump?" Edward hissed in irritation. Plummet. The man was right, but that didn't make it any easier. They wouldn't all fit in one trip, anyway.
"Well we can't climb the rest of these steps in ten minutes!" Edward replied. "Someone has to try and get up there and turn it off, one way or another! I--"
"OI!" A very thin voice cut through the conversation. Edward stopped, looking around to see Conway waving his shirt over his head. The man's impressive vocals were cutting through all of the sounds. "GRAB THE ROPE!" Now Edward saw that he had a co-pilot with him: Krauss, by the look of it. Edward hadn't seen the man in a while.
For the first time, Edward noticed the rope ladder trailing beneath the Endurance. It was battered by the wind, whirling every which-way, but it looked solid. And reachable, to most of them. Edward waved his arm to get the captain's attention, and then pointed to Juliette. He mimed being blind by holding a hand over his eyes and stumbling about.
"JUMP WITH HER!" roared Conway, pointing to Raymond. Was Conway insane? Empty space yawned open beneath them, and he wanted them to jump? He shook his head, holding up three fingers, and pointing to the seats. Only three of them could fit in the Endurance besides Conway, and that was cramming it.
Conway pointed down, and a moment later a pair of aircraft zoomed past. "JUMP!" he insisted. "LAND ON THE PLANES!" He pointed at Edward, Constance, and Luna. The three people on his crew.
Wait what? Edward's face turned bone white. No, no. Of course he was telling them to risk their lives more than anyone else. He shook his head violently, pointing at Collin and Raymond.
"NOT THE DEAL!" shouted Conway again. Edward looked desperately back at the others. Surely they were seeing what Conway was saying as well. "He wants us to jump and try and land on those other planes?" He saw Raymond mumbling to Juliette, maybe translating? "What in the Hell is he playing at?"
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