Prodigy

Simile:

The girl uses a simile to compare the narrator's stumbling to that of a madman. The girl says: “I thought that was you—I saw you stumbling around like a madman all the way down the street!”

A simile is used to enhance the imagery of how the airships glided, docking over the tops of the pyramids like pieces of a puzzle. This facilitates a deeper understanding and development of imagery with regards to the same scene: "Airships glide back and forth in the night sky, covered in lights, several of them docking right over the pyramids’ tops like puzzle pieces."