“The engines approach with a speed I didn’t anticipate after their climb, and the platform billows with steam, just as earlier this morning we’d stood in the quarries above town and watched clouds gild the rain-lustred slate.
“The engines approach with a speed I didn’t anticipate after their climb, and the platform billows with steam, just as earlier this morning we’d stood in the quarries above town and watched clouds gild the rain-lustred slate.