horizon ever lining

Alicia's methods, her heuristics, have always been so conditional. Let yourself relax only if the prototype is approved at testing. Spend another six hours at the hanger if Liesel writes off another test model, or loses it from outside of the cockpit, somewhere. Assert your contributions never, but definitely not unless the project as a whole shows a confident chance of success.

So careful. So cautious.

So nearly driven to tears, when Al takes an interest in her work and doesn't ask once how well people say she does at it.

A new day is dawning...

No reason. Just because.