He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - … - C. J. Cherryh

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He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live.