China Sea
“Forward of Tughril’s blade-sharp bow stretched the straightest and strangest of all: a kilometers-long gutter of dun-muddy water long ago rendered lifeless by the churning props and furtive bilge pumpings of half the world’s commerce. Nearly sixty miles of ditch, varied only by the occasional pumping station or the scooped-out bays that were called gares. Speed in the canal was limited to seven knots, and the frigate glided through the night almost silently save for the occasional hiss of her s...afeties lifting.
Dan stood watching from the bridge as a patch of darkness ahead slowly grew into trees, unnatural and somehow ominous-looking in the surrounding waste.
What the chart called Al-Qantara was lined with trees, what kind he didn’t know, but surprisingly tall in the silvery light of a desert moon. The flat banks were dotted with an occasional low white building that might be a house, though they looked awfully stark for homes. The bank was littered with broken concrete or stones against which their bow wave washed with a rippling roar that in the immense stillness sounded creepy as hell.MoreLess
Dan stood watching from the bridge as a patch of darkness ahead slowly grew into trees, unnatural and somehow ominous-looking in the surrounding waste.
What the chart called Al-Qantara was lined with trees, what kind he didn’t know, but surprisingly tall in the silvery light of a desert moon. The flat banks were dotted with an occasional low white building that might be a house, though they looked awfully stark for homes. The bank was littered with broken concrete or stones against which their bow wave washed with a rippling roar that in the immense stillness sounded creepy as hell.MoreLess
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