1 Terry: How are we going to sneak into Nazi-controlled airspace?
2 Yeti: I'll use my portable cloaking device. The field will extend to cover the entire airship.
3 Terry: That's... very handy. Not to mention totally unheralded.
4 Yeti: We don't have time for literary niceties! When this is all over, I'll go back in time to earlier in this story and mention it off-handedly at some point!

I stole the ship's wheel off the pirates' ship. I don't think they'll be needing it much any more.

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2025-07-05 Rerun commentary: I don't think the Yeti ever actually went back and did that.

Dang. I left a loose plot thread.