Weather to Fly

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Christopher LeGras. Weather to Fly

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To W. Dean LeGras (1937-2006)

7,872 hours

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From somewhere behind him he heard Pop cawing like a bird possessed. Jasper realized he was losing altitude. Pop cawed again and Jasper forced himself to take his eyes off the transfixing light and look over his shoulder. Above him the light was bands of gold and pale purple, and his father was racing toward him flapping almost as fast as a hummingbird.

Jasper looked back at the ocean surface. The light above it had changed into the same sort of gold and purple, the colors woven like a palm frond. He tried to touch a purple band but missed it. He tried and missed again. He kept trying and kept missing, and a funny thing happened. He was flapping his wings. He was no longer losing altitude and heading for the water. He was climbing.

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