Goliath Picture Reveal
On Westerblog, Scott Westerfeld partially revealed three pictures from Goliath. One is from chapter one, and captioned "Two-Headed Messenger," another from chapter two labeled "Secrets in the Rookery," and the third from chapter three called "Hooking the Package."
*UPDATE* Scott Westerfeld has uploaded the revealed picture, which was "Secrets in the Rookery." Go to Westerblog and check it out! It is an amazing piece of art. Go Keith Thompson!
DISCLAIMER: I wish I was Scott Westerfeld, so I'd know what the pictures were...
Chapter 1: Two-Headed Messenger
Dr. Nora Darwin Barlow sat on her bed, idly tracing the embroidered design on her skirt. She thought back to the days when she had been a little girl, learning with her grandfather.
Everyone had seemed against her then, and even her closest friends ostracized her from their little cliques. Yet all she had done was to share her grandfather's ideas. Even now, some people still kept clear of her, as though she carried the plague.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a soft tapping on the window. A messenger tern was perched on the windowsill, a letter tied onto its outstretched leg. Dr. Barlow reached out and unfolded the message.
Dear Nora,
I'm waiting.
Beneath the words, there was no signature, but a crest bearing a two-headed mechanical eagle.
She smiled. Perhaps she wasn't completely alone.
Chapter 2: Secrets in the Rookery
Alek strolled down the passageway, watching the strafing hawks and messenger terns in their slumber. Bovril scuttled along the rail by his side, chattering to itself.
His life had really changed in the past months. First, on the run through Austria and Switzerland, then launching a revolution in Const—Istanbul, he corrected himself.
Anyways, a lot had happened.
As he continued strolling, he contemplated his victory in Istanbul—ha, got it right!—and his decisions. He frowned. Had he made the right choices? Bringing down a fellow nobleman? Spilling his secrets to a reporter? As that memory resurfaced, another fought its way through.
"I need to rejoin Alek and talk him out of this madness. And that means escaping from this ship. Hoffman and I will need your help with that."
"Have you gone barking mad as well? I'm not a traitor...not that much of one, at least."
"Perhaps, but if you don't, I shall be forced to reveal your little secret."
"I don't know...what you're talking about."
His frown grew deeper as he recalled the note of fear in Dylan's voice as he spoke with Volger.
What was that boy hiding?
Chapter 3: Hooking the Package
Deryn peeked over the edge of the Leviathan at the ground, far, far away. She sighed. After that mess with the anarchists, she thought she was done with keelhaul drops and barking espionage.
But, apparently not. The lady boffin always had something that needed doing, and she, Deryn Sharp, decorated soldier in the Royal Air Service, was always her first choice.
"There's our target." The man beside her pointed at a small dot in the distance. As the Leviathan drew closer, the dot revealed itself as a slowly plodding fabricated bear. A single figure sat on top of it, holding the reins. "You're to go down, retrieve the package he has, and we'll bring you back up. Sound simple enough?"
"Sure," she replied, not completely convinced.
After all, look what had happened last time...
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By the way, who do you think would win in a fight, Deryn or Alek?
P.S.: I'm for TEAM VARLOW!