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Briar Wilkes showed up!

"... the swarm was upon them ..." Finally, something is HAPPENING!

She froze, as still and breathless as the jagged mountains around her.

... when things were the quietest, Mercy could hear something whistle or whisper among the mountain peaks ... so far away, and she could hear it faintly but sharply. It made her think of the prick of a pin left inside a dress after alterations: sudden, bright, and small, but faintly alarming.

This is such a long, rambling epic steam punk adventure. I'm enjoying it, but I keep waiting for the action to start.

"Good god almighty!" she shoved him with her shoulder. "Get out of the road! get down, would you! Keep yourself low!" "I can't!" he said, as if his brain were a thousand miles away from the words. " I can't find Larsen! I don't see him. I - I have to find him" "Find him from the DITCH!" she ordered.

I just flew home from Charlotte, so it's funny to hear about Mercy booking a dirigible flight to Charlotte.

"He slouched so that his shoulders held up his chest like a shirt on a hanger. It was as if the weight of his message were too much and his body still too frail to carry it all. If he didn't carry it, nobody would."