The flight is swift. They are across the county line and winging over Nassau County in just moments. Central Nassau's congested sprawl soon gathers into the dense conglomeration of stone and steel that is Queens. Machiko catches sight through the flight cabin windows of the strobing lights of the runways at JFK airport, off to the right. Then they are over the islets and channels of Jamaica Bay, veering past the UCAS military installations at Floyd Bennett Field, and swooping down over the eastern extent of the peninsula known as Coney Island.