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Blugg made a face. " Disgusted, he waved her to the door. "Go on! " • • • "Congratulations," the nurse said. " The nurse was a sour old creature with piggy eyes, a pointed nose, and two donkey's ears. She showed Jane how to fold a sanitary napkin, and what to do with it. Then she delivered a memorized lecture on personal hygiene, gave her two aspirins and sent her back to the dormitory. Rooster was there already. He lay delirious upon his bed, head swathed in bandages. "He's going to lose his left eye," Dimity said.
She experienced a moment's dizzy nausea, a removal into some lightless claustrophobic realm, and then she was once again deep in the maw of the steam dragon plant, in the little dormitory room on the second floor of Building 5, wedged between a pattern storeroom and the sand shed, with dusty wooden beams and a tar paper roof between her and the sky. "So he'll get to fly away," Dimity said sourly. Her tail lashed back and forth discontentedly. "So what? " Rooster punched her on the shoulder for insubordination.
She dreamed of gleaming ebon flanks and smooth, streamlined surfaces, of strength and endurance wedded to ruthless speed. She imagined her hand on the throttle, with all that fearsome power under her control. Beside her, Dimity sighed. The silvery-dull sunlight streaming in over the top of the window was suddenly divided by the fluttering shadow of wings. " Thistle said dimly. "Eww. " "Up there, under the roof. " Dimity climbed up on the ledge and stood on tiptoe. She stretched an arm out the window as far as it would go, her tail twitching impatiently.