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On
the
fifth
night
,
the
astronomers
saw
that
it
seemed
to
be
either
a
bat
,
or
a
black
angel
,
or
a
flying
lizard
--
a
dreadful
silhouette
,
flying
out
of
the
centre
of
that
giant
star
,
straight
towards
the
earth
.
What
was
coming
out
of
the
giant
star
?
Each
night
,
when
the
astronomers
returned
to
their
telescopes
to
peer
up
,
this
black
flying
horror
was
bigger
.
With
slow
,
gigantic
wing-beats
,
with
long
,
slow
writhings
of
its
body
,
it
was
coming
down
through
space
,
outlined
black
against
its
red
star
.
Within
a
few
more
nights
,
its
shape
had
completely
blotted
out
the
red
star
.
The
nameless
,
immense
bat-angel
was
flying
down
at
the
earth
,
like
a
great
black
swan
.
It
was
definitely
coming
straight
at
the
earth
.
It
took
several
days
to
cover
the
distance
.
Then
,
for
one
awful
night
,
its
wings
seemed
to
be
filling
most
of
the
sky
.
The
moon
peered
fearfully
from
low
on
the
skyline
and
all
the
people
of
earth
stayed
up
,
gazing
in
fear
at
the
huge
black
movement
of
wings
that
filled
the
night
.
Next
morning
it
landed
--
on
Australia
.
Barrrump
!
The
shock
of
its
landing
rolled
round
the
earth
like
an
earthquake
,
spilling
teacups
in
London
,
jolting
pictures
off
walls
in
California
,
cracking
statues
off
their
pedestals
in
Russia
.
The
thing
had
actually
landed
--
and
it
was
a
terrific
dragon
.
Terribly
black
,
terribly
scaly
,
terribly
knobbly
,
terribly
horned
,
terribly
hairy
,
terribly
clawed
,
terribly
fanged
,
with
vast
indescribably
terrible
eyes
,
each
one
as
big
as
Switzerland
.
There
it
sat
,
covering
the
whole
of
Australia
,
its
tail
trailing
away
over
Tasmania
into
the
sea
,
its
foreclaws
on
the
headlands
of
the
Gulf
of
Carpentaria
.
Luckily
,
the
mountains
and
hills
propped
its
belly
up
clear
of
the
valleys
,
and
the
Australians
could
still
move
about
in
the
pitch
darkness
,
under
this
new
sky
,
this
low
queer
covering
,
of
scales
.
They
crowded
towards
the
light
that
came
in
along
its
sides
.
Of
course
,
whoever
had
been
on
a
mountain-top
when
the
dragon
landed
had
been
squashed
flat
.
Nothing
could
be
done
about
them
.
And
there
the
horror
sat
,
glaring
out
over
the
countries
of
the
world
.
