Web of Discord (2012)
“‘Mr Jones, make your way as quickly as you can up to Major Kerner. Tell him to cable immediately to the naval base at Königsberg to send an armed vessel to stop this damned juggernaut—’ Even as Kershaw was speaking, a new and frightening sound came to their ears. It seemed to hang in the sky, a vibrating whine with a terrifying pulse behind it, like the beating of a heart. They stood petrified, and looked as one man towards the far coast of Russian Lithuania, from which the spectral sound seeme...d to emanate.
The pine trees of the forest rising behind the solitary church were shaking and trembling, even though there was no wind to stir them. The vibrating whine became louder, causing the militiamen halfway up the slope to freeze in their tracks, shading their eyes to look across the waters of the Baltic.
Then, above the trees, there rose into sight an enormous aerial ship, the like of which no man there had ever seen. Cigar-shaped, and covered in some material that had been painted a shining metallic silver, it moved slowly but with seemingly malign purpose up over the forest and across the sky, towards the Prussian coast.MoreLess
The pine trees of the forest rising behind the solitary church were shaking and trembling, even though there was no wind to stir them. The vibrating whine became louder, causing the militiamen halfway up the slope to freeze in their tracks, shading their eyes to look across the waters of the Baltic.
Then, above the trees, there rose into sight an enormous aerial ship, the like of which no man there had ever seen. Cigar-shaped, and covered in some material that had been painted a shining metallic silver, it moved slowly but with seemingly malign purpose up over the forest and across the sky, towards the Prussian coast.MoreLess
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