The zeppelin Argo is on the last leg of its journey to the country of Georgia, known in ancient times as Colchis. The land of the Golden Fleece. Lady Dru and company will land in Georgia and attempt to find and retrieve the Golden Fleece for Mr Walter Ramsey Hall.
However, the fun is only just beginning. In today’s snippet, the Argo is flying over Turkey and is attacked by two Soviet built biplanes. Dru and her friend Dunyasha run to their cabin to retrieve their pistols. While getting them we hear their conversation. Here is today’s snippet:
We heard more machine guns firing.
“Is this gas bag armed?” Dunyasha asked. “Because that wasn’t only the planes shooting.”
“Knowing Mr Hall, as I do, I’d say Argo is armed.”
“I love that man,” Dunyasha said with a huge smile on her face. “And those bastards better not hurt my champagne.”
We ran back to the lounge, opened a window on the starboard and looked out. Argo’s engines were roaring and she was on a steep climb.
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Really enjoyed this snippet. Snappy as always.
There’s only one thing, I kept expecting to receive more info about the action. In my head, I have this picture of the women going frantically through their things, looking for the weapons, but it never came up in the narration. They just speak and it kind of seems as if they’re doing nothing but speaking.
Don’t know, came off as weird to me because of this discrepancy between what I was seeing in my head and what you were telling me from the page.
Does that make sense?