“That was different,” Charles Green snapped. “He was caught in the mooring ropes and had to be hauled aboard because there was nothing else they could do about him,”
“And so there is nothing else we can do about this stowaway,” the man remarked with a smile.
That was true, Calista realised. They could hardly drop her overboard and when her teeth began to chatter and she was shivering, Charles Green’s anger evaporated and he provided her with all the wraps there were available.
Nevertheless she grew colder and colder in the darkness of the night.
Later, when the balloon was deflated in order to descend, it was more frightening than anything she had imagined. She thought that she must fall into a tree or be dropped in a lake.
She was utterly terrified.
She knew that she had no one to b
