The Ash Girl
by A’Lis Bly
For my daughter Claire
Hun Vedverte
Chapter 1
2 July, 1937 CE
Pacific Ocean
This was like no cloud cover, fog or mist she’d ever flown through before. The needles of every gauge juttered, never settling in on a reading. She wondered how low they really were, wondered if the rush across her belly was a mirror response to the belly of the plane. It had happened before . . . the two bodies riveted together out of aluminum and human skin.