Look to Windward
““That’s the whole point.”
“Really. I see.”
“No, I don’t think you do, do you?”.
“No.”
The woman laughed and continued to adjust the flying harness. All about them the landscape was the color of drying blood.
Kabe stood on a rugged but still elegant platform made from wood and stone and perched on the edge of a long escarpment. He was talking with Feli Vitrouv, a woman with wild black hair and deep brown skin over hard-looking muscles. She wore a tight blue body suit with a small belly pack and ...was in the process of strapping herself into a wing harness, a complicated device full of compressed, slatted fins that covered most of her rear surfaces, from ankles to neck and down her arms. About sixty other people—half of them also wing-fliers—were distributed about the platform, which was surrounded by the blimp tree forest.
Dawn was just starting to break anti-spinwards, throwing long slanting rays across the cloud-whisped indigo sky. The fainter stars had long since been submerged in the slowly brightening vault; barely a handful still twinkled.MoreLess
“Really. I see.”
“No, I don’t think you do, do you?”.
“No.”
The woman laughed and continued to adjust the flying harness. All about them the landscape was the color of drying blood.
Kabe stood on a rugged but still elegant platform made from wood and stone and perched on the edge of a long escarpment. He was talking with Feli Vitrouv, a woman with wild black hair and deep brown skin over hard-looking muscles. She wore a tight blue body suit with a small belly pack and ...was in the process of strapping herself into a wing harness, a complicated device full of compressed, slatted fins that covered most of her rear surfaces, from ankles to neck and down her arms. About sixty other people—half of them also wing-fliers—were distributed about the platform, which was surrounded by the blimp tree forest.
Dawn was just starting to break anti-spinwards, throwing long slanting rays across the cloud-whisped indigo sky. The fainter stars had long since been submerged in the slowly brightening vault; barely a handful still twinkled.MoreLess
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