They put their attention to the door, ignoring the screams of pain and cries for help, and somehow managed to wrench it open. The sudden release after so much grinding and groaning nearly jerked the door from his hands. He let it fly from his fingers with a triumphant “YES!”<br/><br/>He felt the sudden influx of chill mountain air and then saw a blur as Nora began to dive out after it. More from reflex than any desire to save anyone, his reached out in an attempt to grab her around the waist and yank her back into the plane. His foot slipped, caught, and he grabbed at the door frame to keep himself from tumbling after.<br/><br/>The sound of the door hitting the snowbank echoed against the mountainsides.<br/><br/>It sounded like the closing of a tomb.<br/><br/>“Help us!” A woman with short brown hair wiped blood from her cheek and pulled at the arm of another. The body she was pulling at was limp. She kept tugging, and suddenly the arm came unstuck and she was left holding a severed limb. The poor woman started at the arm mutely, then began to scream uncontrollably. She dropped the arm and a ring on the left hand gleamed in the firelight before the arm rolled away.<br/><br/><i>That must have been her husband,</i>Mark realized.<i>She was holding her husband's hand when the plane hit...there's nothing else left of him. </i><br/><br/>Mark shuddered. He didn’t know if it was from the cold, his relief that they hadn’t fallen to the snowbank below the plane, or the carnage he had just witnessed, but his very soul felt cold. If they didn’t find some shelter and heat soon they would all wind up meatsicles on the side of the mountain. He didn’t even know what state they were in.<br/><br/><i>You're in the state of denial,</i>came the cynical inner voice that always seemed to undermine him. Mark couldn’t argue; part of him was hoping that he would wake up and discover this had been a sick nightmare induced by his neighbor’s fear of flying.<i>Wake up, wake up,</i>he told himself.<i>This can’t be happening to me. I’m due to start shooting a movie in thirty days, for fuck’s sake! </i>