nothing inside mark wanted to hold onto it . mack closed the cockpit door and kept to himself the entire flight . he looked back outside and he could see the winds ripping the upper walls to shreds . he forced himself to sit back down again . by late afternoon the coast line they had been following had grown even more jagged , and the surf boiled and thundered against the rocks . he squeezed my fingers back with the pressure of a toddler , and that was hard to see . they were the best of friends from that moment on . 