Machines Volume II, Test C
A Granite Bay Design Microsite
“But it was fully fifteen seconds before the round plate that she held in her hands began to glow.”
“According to the repeater dials in the main salon, the Acheron was making a steady forty-seven knots at a height of a little over two thousand feet, all of which suggested, I had been told, that I might be afforded an excellent view of the landscape below. So I had ventured out to the observation point, perhaps expecting to be the only person present. To my slight surprise and my more than slight pleasure, I found my new acquaintance Mr Augustus Montague was already in residence.”