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JULY 10TH, 2011

Seline crossed her arms. "Hmph." What a jerk! It wasn't her fault she had so many questions! He was a questionable guy! And she was going to be stuck in a plane with him for who knew how long! She looked out of her window and away from him.

And Jed certainly had nothing to say to her; he was done explaining, anyway.

Less than a minute later, the entire plane began to rumble. Seline's large striped ears automatically went down and stuck flat to the sides of her face and her barely formed claws dug into her leather seat.

It was time for take-off.

She quickly glanced back at that questionable pilot. Her expression obviously showed her fear, but Jed smirked at her. At any moment, he could've switched his hand from one lever to another…or even a button. Any such action would've thrown Seline into a full-blown panic attack. He still had nothing to say, though. He was much too pleased that she was too scared to speak.

The plane began to move forward. Seline's eyes darted towards the windshield and down the silver nose towards the propeller. She watched it turn until it was spinning so fast she couldn't see either of the two blades at all. The aircraft hummed.

Her back pressed into her seat. Pretty soon, the plane would be off the ground, soaring through the sky, and she'd be completely incapable of fending for herself due to the consequences of trying to overrule the only other person that could actually fly the plane…

A glint of sunlight reflected off of the wing and hit Seline in the face. She winced, but continued to keep her attention off of Jed. The desert scenery outside of her window was whizzing by so fast! From the edge of the horizon, the fiery red sun was coming up ever so quickly, and they were just about to take off into the sunrise. She took a deep breath and did her best to keep her cool.

…She couldn't do that for very long. "Jed!" she barked, sounding almost more angry than scared.

"What?!" he barked right back at her, purposely mimicking her tone. He didn't seem very moved by her sudden outburst, obviously—he was still mindlessly fiddling with the knobs and buttons on the giant dashboard.

She glowered at him. "Where are we going?!" she shouted over the rumble of the plane.

"Good question!"

That did all but sooth Seline's raging emotions. "You are a jerk!!" she growled.

"Sometimes!"

How great! She was stuck in a plane with some guy she barely met, that had such an overly active sense of humor that she couldn't tell when he was serious or not…and he had no destination plans. She wasn't even sure if he was really from the U.S. Air Force. She pouted and pulled up the collar of the spare jacket she was wearing and scrunched her face back into the chair.

"Hey, what's that?"

Seline raised her eyebrow. Jed was peering out of the windshield at something- probably something extremely unimportant to her as most of the things he'd previously said were. "What?" she grumbled.

"It looks like a…"

"Yes…?"

"It's a cow!" Jed exclaimed, sounding extremely amused.

"What?!"

"MOO!"

Seline ignored his ridiculous shenanigans and looked out of the windshield. Just as Jed said, there was a cow standing there by its lonesome a few meters ahead, eating a dried up clump of grass. It lazily stared at the plane as it came veering onward towards it.

"What in the world?!" Jed shouted, laughing to himself as the plane zipped past the bovine. "How in the world does a cow get out here in the desert! That's all kinds of crazy!"

At least Seline would never have to worry about those stupid, stinking, ugly cows ever again. She pressed her face against her side window and stuck her tongue out at the disgusting heifer. It couldn't see her since the plane had passed it up several meters ago, but she didn't care! It felt good to leave it all behind!