"Nine...hours." That's slightly less that the time it takes to get to Tazmily to Snowcap Mountain on foot, and those airships are fast. "...So this is what Leder meant by 'an incredibly big world'."

The possibility that there were more people living here than grains of sand in the Nowhere Islands seemed much more plausible now.

"I need to see it for myself!"

Sparks catches him just as he's about to go back out of his room, draining his good cheer. "It's a horse with rocket parts?" That is horrifying.