Valeria tries to use the Moon broom for an ordinary air journey but it flies straight up:
"Stars that dawn had been drowning crowded again into sight. The moon stood hard-edged. Sunrise blazed suddenly behind her. Earth fell away as if down a hole." (p. 371)
Stars and sudden sunrise: she is going into space, to:
"...those happy climes that ly
"Where day never shuts his eye,
"Up in the broad fields of the sky."
-see here.
She sees:
Earth big, huge, shrinking fast;
lights of cities;
the sun above a thin, bright, blue and white curve;
more stars than she has ever seen;
the Milky Way "'...clear around the sky.'" (p. 373)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
If the stone whose "sympathies" were for Earth's had not been improperly swapped with a space rock, Valeria would have succeeded in her original plan of simply hiding the moon broom.
Ad astra! Sean
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