Chapter 8:
She was happy the trip over Mexico was so quick. There was not much to see but desert and clouds and a few trees chopped down long ago. Once they crossed northern Mexico, it wasn’t difficult to follow the coast of the gulf towards the city of Houston.
They encountered favorable winds and weather the whole way, allowing them to reach the small town of Corpus Christi ahead of schedule. They had no sight of the Russian airship, but they would be foolish to strike at them over American soil. Any attack would provide Dearborn the justification to arrest the lot of them, or the military to outright storm the craft as any aggression might be considered an act of war.
The idea Mister Wizard had put into her head about ancient Greece kept gnawing at her. Something about what he said a
