the_very_best | gratitude

gratitude

Bella flies away. She visits her parents, hits up the guild for matches and wins enough to pay her guild dues, and tools around random wilderness beating up on the wildlife.

She doesn't really expect to hear from Sherlock and Tony again.

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Candle has the median wingspan of the group, but he's spent more time flying than Irene and has a better sense of exactly how close to an obstacle he is capable of getting. Tony starts pulling ahead as soon as they hit forest.

Rachis is not really on a level playing field with these two; she can go fast, and has been flying all her life, but she needs acceleration time to get anywhere, and Bella's fairly holding her down to the space among the trees so she doesn't have the chance. She does her best, anyway, but they were never going to win.

Candle is the first to reach the designated turnaround point. He does a fairly wide swing around the tree, but still clears it before Irene passes him going the other way.

Rachis could corner better if she were cheating by braking with an Air Slash, but that would, of course, be cheating. She and Bella swoop third around the tree and head back for the tower.

Candle touches down and flaps his wings in a celebratory fashion while Tony clings to his back and giggles.

Irene lands beside him and shifts from foot to foot grumpily before she permits Sherlock to disembark.

Rachis lands and trills "Pidgepidgeot." Bella slides carefully off her back.

"That was fun, even if I didn't have a prayer," laughs Bella, returning her 'mon.