A Prince Without A Kingdom (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Schiff was pushing a cart of empty gas bottles, while technicians whirled about the hangar. Above him, the Hindenburg had gobbled up its two hundred thousand cubic meters of hydrogen. Schiff couldn’t take his eyes off it. The balloon’s belly was full to bursting. It was a giant, as long as twelve tennis courts end to end, and appeared dust colored in its lair. Schiff talked to it from morning until night, moving his lips soundlessly. He called it Hindy, as if it were a friend. Sleep until this evening. . . . Hugo Eckener had asked Schiff to talk inside his head, and the boy was doing his best to obey him. He worked hard, and that way people forgot about him. It took hundreds of gas bottles to satisfy Hindy’s hunger. Schiff transported them one by one, day in and day out. The Zeppelin Company workers were doing the final checks. Two or three of these men were still suspended from the arches. The Hindenburg’s departure for America was set for that same evening. It had already made several crossings to Brazil at the start of the season.
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