[**I wonder now if 033.png, saved final, should not end with a comma] Toandoah's battle-cry, she was pressing
the electric button which, connected with
a switch in the Thunder Bird's tail, would
start it off, pointed directly for the moon,
to light up that silver disc with a bright
powder-flash visible here on earth.

She was mesmerized by its wild, red
eye. She was watching it switch its rosy
tail feathers, two hundred feet long, that
dashing explorer, as, roaring, it leaped
from its mountain platform at incredible
speed for an incredible flight.

She was echoing the college boys' untamed
slogan: "Watch it tear; oh!
watch it tear--the fire-eater."

She....

But what--what was this? Was she
tearing with it? Was she, she herself,
just a shocked girl, at the heart of its
rapid-fire explosions?

Was she being hurled with it through
space, blank space, Absolute Zero, below
what human instrument could register,--or
human girl encounter and live?

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