Mainspring (2011)
“Their carbines crackled as they shot wildly into the mass of birds and bats that darkened the air around Bassett like smoke from a burning city.
“Belay that firing immediately,” shouted Captain Smallwood as he returned to the poop deck.
Officers and petty officers about the ship took up the order. The marines quickly stood down. Their lieutenant ran up and down the ranks berating his men. The clouds of winged creatures surrounding Bassett dissipated, seeking higher ground and more peaceful roos...ts.
Wollers barked a series of steering orders to the tillermen and the ropes division, lest the airship drift into the walls of the city that now surrounded them. Hethor glanced backward, over the stern rail, to see blue sky beyond, ocean sparkling below. The Guinea Coast was a dark and distant line looming on the horizon.
Honest terrestrial soil, so comfortingly horizontal, had traded places with the ever-vertical Wall, which itself had once been the foreboding shadow in the distance.
He turned back to the city.MoreLess
“Belay that firing immediately,” shouted Captain Smallwood as he returned to the poop deck.
Officers and petty officers about the ship took up the order. The marines quickly stood down. Their lieutenant ran up and down the ranks berating his men. The clouds of winged creatures surrounding Bassett dissipated, seeking higher ground and more peaceful roos...ts.
Wollers barked a series of steering orders to the tillermen and the ropes division, lest the airship drift into the walls of the city that now surrounded them. Hethor glanced backward, over the stern rail, to see blue sky beyond, ocean sparkling below. The Guinea Coast was a dark and distant line looming on the horizon.
Honest terrestrial soil, so comfortingly horizontal, had traded places with the ever-vertical Wall, which itself had once been the foreboding shadow in the distance.
He turned back to the city.MoreLess
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