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"Course not!" Rue grinned at her "Stay as long as you like I’m sure Formerly Floote will love that"

"I won’t be a burden?

"Goodness no! You’re handy with your es, and accusto We’re lucky to have you Prin perhost now You’ll need to decide where to install his tank so that he has the most shipboard access Quesnel will help with that"

Prim held up a hand "We need food, Rue"

"And fuel," Percy said For so He was letting the Custard drift and not running the propeller anydo we have before both are exhausted?" Rue snapped to business

"Two days" Prier

"Four with minimal use One and a half at full power" Percy didn’t call the boiler room; no doubt he, too, had already checked

It’s like we’re a proper dirigible crew at last! Rue was secretly delighted, but she did give their situation soht

She came to a decision "We make for the aetherosphere"

"Rue, it’s uncharted," Percy protested, but his hand was already hovering over the puff button

"So we chart it Find so that takes us, what, eastwards? Where do you think the nearest major city is?"

"Zanzibar," said Percy promptly "But that’s the other side of Kilimanjaro"

"Zanzibar it is"

Naturally, he found thee, but he fully good at navigation He was ridiculously pleased with hi his new current to the Royal Geologic Society and whether he could convince thehfare

Nearly everyone who could be spared went to bed thePercy and a skeleton crew up top in case anythingMiss Sekhardless Forhost holder while they were in the aetherosphere Everyone else illingly to their respective beds

Except Rue Rue went to Quesnel’s bed

They’dto his iust Rue proo back to his platforot some sleep

They were both beyond exhausted

Rue insisted Quesnel take a littlepositively awful He agreed to a dra not to jostle hiood aran stroking her tangled hair in a meditative way

"Zanzibar, we hope We’ll catch a restock and a refuel there"