Steampunk! by Kelly & Grant Link & Kelly & Grant Link

Steampunk! by Kelly & Grant Link & Kelly & Grant Link

Author:Kelly & Grant Link & Kelly & Grant Link [Link, Kelly & Grant, Gavin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SteamPunk
ISBN: 9780763648435
Publisher: Candlewick Press


Mary thought for a moment. “No. You’re right. We know this, too: What? Could you not even watch with me one hour? ”

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.

Weeks later, in his hospital bed in Westport, Southland, McCahon told reporters that he owed his life to an able seaman from the John Bartholomew. The quick-thinking, strong old man had caught the ladder as it flashed by, fidgeting over the turf. “He grabbed the ladder in one hand, and me with the other, and told me to hold on. We were, by turns, dragged along the ground or in the air. He took off his belt and fastened me to the ladder, and then he let go.”

When people heard that a girl had survived, carried off on one of the airship’s mooring lines and hauled up by its crew, there were many who had hopes. Even Alice had hopes of her bold friend, Sylvia. But only one man was lucky. It turned out that the girl was his daughter, Amy.

The lucky father told people that he’d known his daughter was in Gethsemane. She had run away a year before. She had stolen his horses and sold them. He’d traced the horses, but hadn’t been able to find his daughter. He didn’t like to speak ill of the dead, but he had to say that Gethsemane’s sheriff wasn’t a very helpful man.

Why had she run away? Her mother was dying of a terrible illness.

A cancer of the bones of her face. No one had expected the girl to keep watch by her mother’s sickbed, but still .



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