"What can you see below?" Kate screamed to Reid. "My instruments tell me it should be water. I can't make any height and the starboard engine is overheating."

"Water!" screamed Lorie. "I can see white caps."

"Hang on," Kate yelled back. "We're going down."

With infinite care, she throttled the good engine back and manipulated the controls so the amphibian dropped. It hit the water with an almighty bump. Lorie screamed and Reid felt something snuggle between his legs. It was Cinders, who must have decided his company was necessary at the moment. Kate opened the throttle but the plane pulled sideways and the offside wing dipped. She changed tactics, cut the throttle and the plane dropped sickeningly into the choppy waves.

"We're down," Kate gasped and edged the throttle forward.

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