Brian drinks some water from the lake and tries not to dwell on the now-dead pilot. The crash hasn’t left him with any significant injuries, except for a swollen and tender forehead. In the aftermath of the crash, a dazed Brian recalls the day he had seen his mother with another man. He lies there for nearly a day, unable to process the events of the previous day. Brian survives the plane crash and surfaces on the lakeshore. He decides to let the plane go on until it runs out of fuel, and when it does, he aims it towards a lake and manages to land there. He tries to reach someone on the radio, but he gets no aid. The shocked Brian is forced to take control of the plane as it begins to plummet downwards. He realizes the Pilot is having a heart attack after he sees him bend over the controls and twitch uncontrollably. Brian feels the plane jerk and looks over at the pilot who is rubbing his left arm, and the smell of body gas pervades the cockpit.
He had taken it without complaint for he had heard a different note in her voice. Brian is wearing a hatchet on his belt, as his mother had given it to him on their drive to the airport. He shows Brian a small tutorial of controlling the plane and resumes his single-minded focus on flying. The pilot is very cold at first, but he sees Brian looking at him, and opens up to him slightly. Brian is flying in a single-engine bush-plane and is sitting in the co-pilot chair next to the pilot. Brian blames his mother for the recently concluded divorce because he knows of her secret but has yet to tell anyone. Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old teenager who is going to see his father, a mechanical engineer working in the Canadian oil fields, for the first time after the divorce.
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