Killing the Machine (Aboard the Great Iron Horse Book 2) by Sedgwick Jamie

Author:Sedgwick, Jamie [Sedgwick, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: best selling steampunk, sci fi, steampunk, fantasy, new steampunk, adventure, best selling fantasy, best selling sci fi
Publisher: Timber Hill Press
Published: 2015-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

Of the four, River managed to get three of the men out onto the propeller shaft. She could hardly get the fourth man even to look over the rail. River decided he was a lost cause. The man was going to have to find work on a different ship.

By that time, they had entered the mountain range and had been flying north for half an hour.

“Lights ahead!” shouted a sailor from the crow’s nest. Rowena called for her spyglass. River climbed back onto the ship and raced to the helm. Kale joined them, standing on Rowena’s other side.

“Is it them?” Kale said.

“That is the ship I saw,” said Rowena. She handed Kale the spyglass. He glanced through it, and then handed it to River with a dark look. She put the scope to her eye, focusing on the lights in the distance.

In a clearing next to a mountain lake, a carrack-sized ship hovered over a walled encampment. River instantly knew it was Burk’s ship. Having become well acquainted with Rowena’s ship, River could tell that the design of Burk’s vessel was only vaguely similar to those used in the Forgotten Sea. It was wider in the midsection and flatter, lacking the tall forecastle of the carrack. The construction seemed to be a hybrid of the local ships and the dragonships the Vangars had used to invade her homeland.

Other, similar ships rested both on and off the shore of the lake, in various stages of construction. In the fort below the airship, River saw long, lodge-style buildings and corrals for cattle and sheep. Torches burned here and there, casting flickering light across the muddy streets. The Iron Horse’s tender car sat behind one of these buildings, at the edge of the fort. She noticed a handful of tall, long-haired warriors patrolling the wall. They were dressed in fur cloaks and carrying broadswords and battle-axes over their shoulders.

River slammed the spyglass shut and handed it back to Rowena. She looked Kale in the eye. Through clenched teeth, she said, “I knew we should have killed them all when we had the chance.”

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