The Last Cloud Ship

“She stowed away on the last flying ship with nothing but a wrench. Inside she found her father's signature, dated three weeks after his death.”

The Harbor Command declared Mara Ibarra's father drowned on the southern reefs and sent her mother an empty chest and a denied pension. Mara doesn't believe it: wrench in hand, she sneaks into the bilge of the last flying galleon, where the old engineer Onofre Cuesta finds her before the ship casts off. Down there she finds her father's signature, dated three weeks after his official death, and soon understands why the corvette of Arteche, the Harbor Command's bloodhound, is chasing the galleon through the upper strata: he wants what her father hid on board.