Comet dropped, if not like a stone then far more precipitously than any airship should. Even so Galea put on a bravura display of talent and experience, trimming the interceptor straight and level as it stooped, a silver-gray falcon. Just off the port quarter, seemingly close enough to touch, the top of a far larger envelope appeared nearly bow-on over the rim of the broad aft gunport in front of Sunset and Rose.