This picture features a young girl, Eleanor, as she makes her way across the Pacific in the Moon Balloon fashioned for her by Artemis. On her journey she sees many wondrous things above and below, and uses her dead man's compass to guide her--which points in all six directions--as well as her most precious item, a telescope made from star glass. In this scene she spies Geronimo, the Last Pirate, and considers the costs of helping him unmoor his ship from the jagged rocks below.

The original ink illustration was completed using a stippling technique, in which the artist used small dots to create the illusion of form and depth.