Empire of the Clouds [part III]

Fighting the wind as it rolls you

Feeling the diesels that push you along

Watching the channel below you

Lower and lower into the night

Lights are passing below you

Known and friends are asleep in their beds

Storm is raging around you

A million to one, that's what she said

Sleepers standing beside her

Wind is high, gusts to the fore

Waiting to make a decision

Experienced men sleep in their beds

The cover is ripped and she's drowning

Rings flooding into the hull

Bleeding to death and she's falling

Lifting gas is draining away

...Has successfully fastened her mooring mast on the field of

Carrington. She has a gas capacity of five million cubic feet

And she is designed to carry 52 passengers. The passenger

Accommodation is in the center of the ship and is independently

Slung to the main structure in order to avoid vibration. The ship

Has four fins. They're very massive affairs and each fin has an

Area greater than that of a tennis court. There's also a little

Cockpit at the end of the ship, which you can see. It must be a cold

Job to sit in there. There she goes, she's away. Rising majestically