Great Sky River (2009)
“The haulers he had ridden before had been slow, easy.
This Crafter rolled with a grating murmur and lurched heavily when it crossed an arroyo. The swaying nearly made him sick. He and Shibo kept Toby firmly pressed back into a cubbyhole where the rocking could not dislodge him. The boy’s legs stuck out like cordwood, stiff and useless. Around them the human party covered very little of the Renegade’s cylindrical bulk. They held on to the myriad pipes and masts and vent-valves in the Crafter’s ceramic skin.
They crossed rough country because the Crafter carefully stayed away from mech roads. This was the most built-up complex Killeen had ever seen, a web of pale slab pathways and blank-faced, perfectly cubic buildings. Traffic fled down narrow gleaming rails.
On the steep hillsides foundries rumbled. Through a gradually thickening activity the Renegade moved with crafty purpose.
Its antennae cycled endlessly.
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