After a round of voluntary dropouts, 132 students remained.
33 new recruits, 99 veteran soldiers.
Flossie Wright's team, 7 people; Calvin Ramos's team, 26 people.
Jessie Grain's team, 38 people; Sandy Cruz's team, 61 people.
9 a.m.
The armed helicopter hovered in the sky.
After Austin Shepherd had shown them the map for one minute, he called Austin Shepherd and Drake Easton up and began tossing students out of the helicopter, their parachutes opening mid-air as they descended into the desolate deep forests.
By placing each student at certain intervals on the same horizontal plane, the chance of their encountering each other was greatly reduced.
When Flossie Wright landed, her luck wasn't great, as she ended up hanging from a tree.
Fortunately—
She wasn't injured.
After tearing down the parachute to keep as a spare tool, Flossie Wright carefully slid down the tree and, using the trees to orient herself, headed accurately north.
...
On the helicopter.
