The small handheld extinguisher that had been used as a weapon was from the bracket to the left of the pilot’s position, out of reach for anyone in the co-pilot’s seat. The pilot’s communications set had been adjusted for Vetsch, the co-pilot for Sergei. All steering data apart from some random i...
Angela swayed, suddenly dizzy, clinging on to the iron balustrade as the rocks and the river swirled below her. A three-funnelled clipper swept under her feet, belching steam, heading for the port. It gave her pause for a moment. She would not risk others. That wasn’t her way, even if it was Howa...
The town had a name, but he didn’t tend to use it, in much the same way that he didn’t tend to refer to the local village by any other name but “the village” and the nearest city as “the city” on those rare occasions when he had cause to mention them at all. His strange house—tall and soot staine...