Steampunk! by Kelly Link

Author:Kelly Link [Link, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5638-6
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

The boy was able to reach the coastal road, where he borrowed a very nervous horse. He rode hard for town and help. He rode right into the sheriff and some deputies. The sheriff called the boy a panic monger — and a number of other things — and told his deputies to carry him off to jail.

Thirty minutes later, the mountain exploded. A great white cloud swelled up into the sky, then its soft flesh of steam burned away to show its black, ashy bones. The cloud flashed with fire and continued to grow and throw off boulder bombs and thick bolts of lightning. The ships in the harbor leaned over till their spars touched the water. Then they were torn from their moorings and overturned. The cloud toppled slowly and inclined toward the town. A white half circle raced off across the sea toward the horizon — faster than anything in nature.

The people in the airship watched the mountain fall in on itself and the sea turn into a mountain.

The zeppelin was blown away from Gethsemane on a blast of hot wind, but when the cloud collapsed, it was caught at the edge of the ash fall. The survivors waited in numb dread as ash accumulated on the airship’s canopy. But the top of the canopy was thickly rubberized, strengthened for flights in European snow. The ash scoured the rubber but didn’t puncture the canopy. And the weight of accumulated ash finally brought the ship down in the ocean seventy miles from Gethsemane.

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