Honour had to circle around to take it all in -- and so did the rest of her group. Where before it was, in all respects, an ordinary dog-cart -- albeit without any limber or harness to be pulled by a pony, and with the addition of a few extra controls -- now it looked completely unlike any vehicle she’d ever seen before. The front, back and sides had been built up with wooden planks, like on an ordinary covered wagon. But where a wagon's front and back were as flat as its flanks, if tilted outwards at the top, the carriage had a pointed bow and stern, just like those of a sailing ship. And what's more, instead of a canvas roof supported by hoops, the wooden planks angled in at the top, then lay flat, to form a semi-closed compartment, with one round hole towards the back, and a large rectangular one towards the front.