"Warnings," said Riley.
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Riley continues the "traveling by air these days is super ominous, guys" trend.
What would voices in the sky be warning aeronauts about? Probably the advancement of technology and the sciences toward nuclear proliferation, would be my guess! Or maybe the voices are warnings from the angels and/or the dead and/or God about mankind rising too high above their station, like a recurrence of the Tower of Babel story. The aeronauts' flights are a metaphor for mankind's ambition toward knowledge and the dangers of moving too far too fast. Like the Bindlestiffs being caught in that upriser and almost dooming themselves.
Oh! Which also means the near crash of the Chums of Chance is also probably a metaphor about how mankind can't move quickly backwards once they've attained this new knowledge! They must move steadily and with caution, no matter how they attempt to stride into the future.
Steady as she goes states the old sailing proverb! Unless it was originally a proverb told by goat herders.
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