She realized it wasn’t a training guide. It was a survival story, written in schematics. And she had just become one of its characters.

AC BUS 1 – NORMAL.

Stan nodded once. “You just saved two hundred people and a forty-million-dollar airplane. Congratulations. Now do it again, but this time, the APU won’t start. And the battery is at twelve volts. And it’s nighttime. And you’re over the Atlantic.”

Then came the simulator.