Leviathan
“Deryn skidded to a halt at the entry gate, stunned by the tumult of hoots and roars and shrieks. To her right a troop of monkeys clung to the bars of their cage, howling into the air. Past them a netted enclosure was full of agitated birds, a blizzard of plumage and noise. Across a wide moat a giant elephantine stamped the ground nervously, sending tremors through Deryn’s boots. “Barking spiders,” she swore softly. She’d made Jaspert take her to the London Zoo five weeks ago, fresh off the train from Glasgow. But on that visit she’d heard nothing like this ruckus. Obviously the Leviathan had put the beasties in a state. Deryn wondered how the airship must smell to the natural animals. Like a giant predator coming to gobble them up? Or some long-lost evolutionary cousin? Or did its tangle of fabricated species make them think a whole island was floating past overhead? “Are you my airman?” a voice called. Deryn turned to see a woman wearing a long traveling coat, a valise in one hand.
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