Swans Over the Moon
“Blinding spears of light stabbed past the swaying, pitch-black window shades, due to the carriage’s bumpy ride. On the outside, beneath the holocaustic sun, eight pygmies hefted the carriage on two long tree limbs thrust through massive metal rings on the coach's side. The couriers were outfitted with baggy white robes and cloth gauntlets that matched the pure white of the carriage itself, wide-brimmed conical hats like inverted spinning tops, and round goggles with matte-black lenses that comp...letely hid the eyes underneath, making their wearers look like four-limbed white insects from a distance.
Horses would have been instantly blinded in such searing white light and, though they would have made the journey more quickly, the beasts could not have endured the trip as well as the pygmies, who had been bred for this very purpose, even retaining their eyes for navigation, unlike their blind palatial cousins. Beneath their flowing robes, their short, taut-muscled legs carried their human cargo with more fluidity than seemed possible for such squat creatures.MoreLess
Horses would have been instantly blinded in such searing white light and, though they would have made the journey more quickly, the beasts could not have endured the trip as well as the pygmies, who had been bred for this very purpose, even retaining their eyes for navigation, unlike their blind palatial cousins. Beneath their flowing robes, their short, taut-muscled legs carried their human cargo with more fluidity than seemed possible for such squat creatures.MoreLess
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