Warhammer Adventures: Flight Of The Kharadron (Realm Quest Book 4) by Tom Huddleston

Author:Tom Huddleston
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Warhammer Adventures
Published: 2020-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Nothing happened.

There was a snap and a groan and she saw the long pipe bend in two, the wave of junk crashing down behind them. The furnace was close now; she could feel its heat on her face, feel the floor shake as the masher slammed down.

‘Should we abandon ship?’ Kaspar yelled. ‘Is it going to fly or not?’

‘I don’t know!’ Alish shrieked. ‘I’ve done everything I can think of!’

Then she looked down, her mouth dropping open. ‘I’m so stupid,’ she said. ‘Wrong pipe!’ She tugged out both pipes, fitting the outflow to the regulator and the inflow to the pressure gauge. The Arbour Seed began to shake, the endrin sphere humming like a swarm of dagger-wasps.

Then they jerked into the air, the struts and guy ropes going taut. The masher slammed down, missing the stern by a hair’s breadth – the next one would flatten them. She saw Elio and Scratch silhouetted in the firelight, their eyes wide with terror.

‘Hang on to something,’ she said, and opened the regulator.

The Arbour Seed shot forward like a rocket, skidding against the sides of the tunnel, scraping the tops of the junk pile below. Alish clung on desperately, one hand on the wheel, the other gripping the regulator lever. She pulled it back, trying to slow them down, but it didn’t have much of an effect. So she reached for the altitude gauge, twisting it so that the airship began to tilt, aiming nose first towards the ceiling.

There was only one opening large enough for them to fit through – the same one through which the Arbour Seed had dropped. She aimed for it, hoping it was open at the top.

They shot upwards like a ball through a cannon, the struts groaning as the endrin sphere rattled and roared. Elio held on to Scratch as Kaspar crashed into the stern.

‘Sorry!’ Alish shouted. ‘But this is the only way.’

The walls of the chute narrowed, and the hull of the airship bumped and scraped against them. But she could see light up ahead, a patch of gold against the grey walls of the tunnel.

They exploded from the opening, startling a pair of Duardin who were trying to dump an entire rhinox carcass. Alish shuddered, imagining what would’ve happened if it had come down while they were coming up. One of the Duardin shook his fist as they spiralled away, twisting into the tunnel and picking up speed.

Alish gripped the wheel, trying in vain to control the ship as it bucked and rolled. They were moving through what looked like the sky-port’s living quarters; she saw cook-pots smoking and hammocks strung from the walls, Duardin waking with a cry as the airship rocketed overhead. They slammed through a succession of washing lines strung across the tunnel, sending jackets and trousers flying in every direction. Scratch let out a muffled cry, tearing something large and woolly away from his face – it looked like a pair of Duardin undergarments. Still, at least they were clean.

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