The Home Stretch
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small_things*stirs from a deep sleep, wrapped snug in the bison skin in Temeraire's harness*
*feels light breeze and warm sun on face*
*slowly opens eyes...and sees Mount Axis for the first time, glowing gold and faint purple in the setting sun*
*blinks*
*rubs face and blinks again...and finally finds voice*
That...that's it. That's it!
*off everyone's puzzled silence, pointing frantically*
My...my paintings. Drawings. I mean...sketches. In the cell. Hundreds of them. Of that.
I must have drawn it a hundred times...I thought I made it up. I thought it wasn't real.
*stares at it, beyond words*
*feels light breeze and warm sun on face*
*slowly opens eyes...and sees Mount Axis for the first time, glowing gold and faint purple in the setting sun*
*blinks*
*rubs face and blinks again...and finally finds voice*
That...that's it. That's it!
*off everyone's puzzled silence, pointing frantically*
My...my paintings. Drawings. I mean...sketches. In the cell. Hundreds of them. Of that.
I must have drawn it a hundred times...I thought I made it up. I thought it wasn't real.
*stares at it, beyond words*
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