Chapter 6The Ship
Fenn
Fenn wasn’t quite sure what they had expected when Will had said we’ll get the boat home. But it wasn’t this floating mountain. They’d got used to the enormity of Will’s city of London and hadn’t been that surprised by the human villages and towns they’d seen since. It was hotter here further south in the Delfland, but that was only to be expected, nearer the median of the planet. And the different languages, the different modes of dress, the different building styles…none of that had unsettled him because it was similar enough to his previous experiences. In fact, this bleached desert land was much more like their own Outlands than Will’s dark, rainy London.
Keren was still processing all the new things with wide, silent eyes, as Fenn had done when they’d first a
