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This is a preview of: Phoebus Krumm

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Here's what the whole book is all about, visually. _Sweek Lestvoh_
is four times the size of the biggest ship we've seen so far, with
three magnificently windowed and ornate stepped decks, and enough
space on her maindeck for a football field and a couple of tennis
courts.

Not literally.

We're seeing her more or less diagonally, from a little above her
tops'ls. Her mast is a couple of miles tall (here or later we'll see
small, enclosed, windowed cabins at the junction of each tier of sails
-- of which there are perhaps six.

The upper third of _Sweek Lestvoh_'s hull is modeled on the gilded
transom of _H.M.S. Victory_, with mullioned windows and various
embellishments. The bottom two thirds resemble _Victory_'s gundecks,
with fancy, painted gunports. Like _Victory_, she has a pronounced
'tumblehome' architecture.

_Sweek Lestvoh_ has auxiliary steam launches, just like
_Resplendent Quetzal_'s, but they look impossibly tiny, set into her
hull. There should be a larger, fancier captain's launch, as well.

Also looking tiny, _Kestrel_ hangs above the giant ship in an
attitude suggestive of a bird of prey about to stoop -- on a dinosaur.

Bretta's party can just be made out at the stern of the great
ship.

Tarrant (to himself): 'Ceo's eyes, she's _huge_!'

Narrative (Tarrant): 'It was my job to make sure Bretta got aboard
unnoticed.'