““To hell with it," Vincent said, signing his name. “I’ve gone down three times already. A fourth doesn’t scare me.” That was too much for Bernat. “I don’t mean to interrupt,” he said, “but do you mean that you’ve been in three airship crashes and survived?” “No, my lord, I died on every occasion,” Vincent said. “By the third time, I’d become so inert, they had no choice but to make me an officer.””
