Angelic skills guided the steam ship Angelica like the grace of angels around every twisted danger of unforgiving mountains.
Nine other steam ships were licking her trail with predatory fever. The only rules of the race were to survive and win Death Race Lacasnarlight, It’s official airship race name. The purse amount was five hundred thousand gold coins to the winner.
The Burning Claw steam ship was the only hell fire of competition for Angelica. Snipers took their shots across the bow hoping to hit their targets of the Angelica, who moved like puppets passing windows in frantic screams to avoid crashing into the mountains where the race official outposts stood.
The team of Angelica would only breathe a sigh of relief, whenever their ship got into bed with the thickest of white clouds, shielding any potential large headed targets from snipers having a clear shot at them.
The Burning Claw earned its name from systematically dismantling their competitors like cheap prostitutes in back-alley propositions, with the indignity of shame splattered over their faces.
The final bend crept up on the Angelica, clouds scattered like mice and a clear view was taken advantage of.
The Burning Claw’s captain piloting the ship was struck with a bullet in the shoulder by Angelica’s best marksman. The Burning Claw partially crashed its right side into the mountain slowing its speed significantly and putting enough distance between them and Angelica out of bullet reach.
The team of the Angelica was breathing hard, some out of fear and others out of relief.
The captain pointed in front of them at the finish line near two clouds and they all slowly began to smile, some even cried like babies, because they knew the five hundred thousand was going to help their families.
Smiling turned into laughter and appreciation, for they all knew how hard they had to work on the ship and their dependence on each other to win this seemingly impossible race.
GF Poetic Wisdom | Competition sings the praises of winners and boos the heartache of losers. ~ Gabriel Foster
