IV
For the next few seconds, the question seemed to be whether they'd pile into the plain or the mountain first; and, for another improbable moment, they were distinctly skidding along upside down. Then Peer got them straightened out, and they soared up rapidly into the night sky above Old Nameless.
Channok's hair settled slowly back into place.
Peer looked around at him, puzzled and rather pale.
"That's not the way it said in the manual!" she stated.
Channok whooped. Then he sat down on the floor, bent over and yelled.
When he got around to wiping the tears from his eyes, Peer was looking down at him disgustedly from the control chair.
"It wasn't the way it said in the manual!" she repeated firmly. "We're going to have to have this old crate overhauled before she'll be safe to fly—and if you weren't my husband, I'd really let you have it now!"
He stood up, muttering some sort of apology.