The Long Cosmos (2016)
“More of the troll’s steady climbing.
The whole day.
Joshua, clinging to Sancho’s back like a child to its father, grew numbed. Out of condition, maybe still suffering the after-effects of the infection, he was barely aware of the world around him. And the troll climbed on and on, with a kind of liquid grace that belied his bulk. The air seemed to grow thinner with every breath, but Sancho was climbing just as vigorously as he had from the start.
The light grew brighter. Looking arou...nd, Joshua saw they were out of that bank of mist now – no, he saw, peering down over Sancho’s shoulder, they had actually climbed above a cloud layer, out of which the mighty trunk of the tree rose up defiantly, reaching for the sky like a space elevator. They had evidently left behind that first layer of canopy too, for the trunks of this tree’s companions stood all around, bare and clean, rising from the clouds. He vaguely remembered reading, probably with some Sister or other, that the carbon that went into making all that wood in a tree’s trunk came from the air.MoreLess
The whole day.
Joshua, clinging to Sancho’s back like a child to its father, grew numbed. Out of condition, maybe still suffering the after-effects of the infection, he was barely aware of the world around him. And the troll climbed on and on, with a kind of liquid grace that belied his bulk. The air seemed to grow thinner with every breath, but Sancho was climbing just as vigorously as he had from the start.
The light grew brighter. Looking arou...nd, Joshua saw they were out of that bank of mist now – no, he saw, peering down over Sancho’s shoulder, they had actually climbed above a cloud layer, out of which the mighty trunk of the tree rose up defiantly, reaching for the sky like a space elevator. They had evidently left behind that first layer of canopy too, for the trunks of this tree’s companions stood all around, bare and clean, rising from the clouds. He vaguely remembered reading, probably with some Sister or other, that the carbon that went into making all that wood in a tree’s trunk came from the air.MoreLess
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