But really the most toothsome dish on the airship s extensive menu is the willowy green sea stalk, whose tubular mouth contains poison-tipped bristles. There is also fresh, pink sow. Sliced open with surgical precision, it does not bleed. Its hoofs are pink too, but darker. The airship s extensive wine list is printed in hieroglyphics, but you may feel free to guess blindly because any selection will go well.
Words can be like methane, filling a room, asphyxiating the patrons.
Cocktail hour on the airship is preceded by a slow tour over this very warehouse. Their formal escorts just nod and pant in the thin air. And you watch and grit your teeth. They ve taken your reserved spot, you should be up there. You belong on that airship.