- Hold on to your hydrogen breathers, Shmoopsters, because we're back in Deryn Sharp's world now.
- The men on the ground finally notice the storm front and start to bring her down.
- It's too late, of course, and she's five hundred feet in the air when the rain starts.
- The ground men really struggle to get her down, and she has to do some serious aerobatics to keep the Huxley from plummeting her to her death.
- Finally, she has to cut the Huxley free of its ground tethers to keep it from crashing into the ground, which means she's now free-ballooning over London with no control over the Huxley at all and no clear idea of how to get down.
- All in all, it's kind of like anyone's first day at a new job.