Status Updates From Against the Day

I’ve tried four times. I just can’t do it.

…the former crew of the Inconvenience became aware of doubts creeping in…If it was all just some elaborate hoax they'd chosen to play on themselves, to keep distracted from a reality too frightening to receive…None of them may really ever have been up in a skyship…They may only have once been readers of the Chums of Chance Series of boys' books, authorized somehow to serve as volunteer decoys.