checking-in

Updated: August 20, 2026

This time it was parked under a tremendously long shed, which Smith afterward saw was really a balcony, one of a tier of ten. Opposite the spot was a large building, like a depot; and over its roof Smith saw the huge bulk of an airship. It was, of course, the Cobulus; and it was when Smith's agent passed through a checking-in room that his name was heard for the first time.

Homer Eon Flint - The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix