A Staffordshire Bull Terrier lies curled in a blanket-draped den beneath a dining table, ears pressed back and chin resting on the knee of a person sitting cross-legged on the floor beside it, one hand laid along the dog's back, while a faint glow of coloured light shows at the edge of drawn curtains in a lamplit room.

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Turbulence

The plane drops. Not a bump, a proper drop, the kind that lifts your stomach into your throat and sends a gasp down the whole cabin. Your hands find the armrests and grip. Then the stranger in the next seat catches your eye and says, quite calmly, “We’re alright. This happens.” And something in your chest lets go, just a little.

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