In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

Sandro carried Ula on the plane and put her down in her seat
by the window. He spread the Ali talia blanket over her and fell into the
seat beside her. Ula was awake now, mumbling nonsense. Penny asked
Beatrice if she could have the window seat for her laptop. Beatrice
barely acknowledged her behind her Jackie O shades, but let her sit
there. In the aisle seat she was closer to the stewardess for her
champagne.
Once aloft, Penny put on her noise cancelling headphones,
wired together her setup and got down with the new samples.
Next time Penny looked back, Sandro and Ula were both
asleep, Ula with her head on Sandro's shoulder.
They flew over Tuscany, where a light dusting of snow still
spread over the gentle hills and farms, heavier farther north on the
Alpine foothills. Locked in the ice age Europe must have been like this,
the crinkled white surface stretching unbroken and untouched by
humanity or any form of life to somewhere beyond the edge of the
world.
Unable to concentrate she shut down the machine. Her head
hurt from last night, from the blinding white outside, and sitting was
painful because all along her back were bruises, even on the front of
her pelvic bone, he probably was the same there.
She looked out the window to the blue and white horizon, was
it really curved? This wasn't Concorde, but she could swear it was a
little curved. It made it seem like Earth was a Frisbee and not a ball
hurtling through space. She looked over to the black shades, the red
nails clutched around the nearly empty glass.
Living with Beatrice was out of the question.
The stewardess dropped the oxygen for Ula, who, once they
landed, was to go straight to the hospital. Sandro called Dick on the
flight phone, who said he would arrange it all.
Ula moaned under her yellow mask. The plane began its
descent, Penny's ears popped and sounds became muffled as she
methodically packed away her tech.
They landed in the foggy sci-fi nightmare of Roissy, parking
somewhere near the terminal. From there most passengers had to take
a hi-tech cattle car bus to the terminal, but Ula, Sandro and Penny got
the royal treatment after an ambulance drove right up to the plane for
them. A stretcher came down the aisle and two white-coated medics
strapped Ula in. Sandro and Penny followed down the aluminum ramp
and climbed into the back of the Citröen ambulance next to Ula.
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