The Towers, the Moon

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This book is in Australian English.

These short stories sit between The Pyramids of London and Tangleways in The Trifold Age series. They contain mild spoilers for The Pyramids of London.

Griff Tenning, kneeling on his seat, strained to see through to the windows of the airship’s forward compartment, but there were heads, a potted palm, and a very round man in the way.

"How can these be the best seats for viewing?" he asked. "At the back and on the wrong side?"

"Which is better?" his aunt replied. "A long view at a distance, or a shorter view right up close?"

"Both. They wouldn’t even notice if I went up front."

"They did the last two times," Griff’s sister Ned said. "I think they meant it about putting you up in one of the ballonet seats next time they caught you."

The insistence of the airship staff that passengers keep to their own particular quarter of the main gondola, rather than crowd to the best vantage points, was peculiar and unfair, but Griff had yet to find a way around it. Ever since he’d turned thirteen, opening his eyes wide and asking as politely as possible was no longer consistently effective. Unfair.

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