The Gigantic
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The passengers of the airship Gigantic never expected their voyage to end in tragedy -- but that was twenty years ago. Now all grown up, one of the youngest passengers has taken upon herself to tell the story of the in-between.
The story no one remembers.
The part of the story that brought them from lift off straight to the Pirate Raid.
The story of her parents, of a young couple that met and fell in love, of Gifts, and if merriment.
These were a very small few of the people that inhabited that practical city in the sky.
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