Bulbeck, Laura (ed) - Swords & Steam / Булбек, Лаура (ред) - Мечи и пар [2016, EPUB, ENG]

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THE FIGHTING HULL was three times the height of a man, a flattened steel egg perched on the front of an armored chassis that bristled with firing slits and stubby smoke-vents. In its glossy black paint, it reminded Getan of the big black ants that were everywhere on his uncle’s farm in the Brintels. The paint had lost some of its gloss now, scarred and stained by a month at the front. Infantrymen with buckets of water had washed off much of the mud, but they could do little about the bright dings left by rifle rounds or the scorch marks that covered most of the right side. A near-miss from an enemy projector had bubbled and blistered the paint, giving it a scabrous look. “Tough old girl,” observed Otring. Getan grunted. He felt no inclination to romanticize the hull. It was an ugly implement of destruction, the latest murderous fad in a pointless war. More particularly, it was his personal place of imprisonment. He had spent the last six weeks squeezed inside that steel egg with seven other war mages, sweating in his leather harness, dope-dazed and deafened by the thunder of the pistons at his back. He hated it intimately, hated the fear and discomfort, hated being part of the war machine. Unlike Otring, he had not learned to submerge his resentment in facile patriotism. . . .