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[the_very_best]

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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[bitofafiction]

He nods.

[the_very_best]

"...Okay."

[bitofafiction]

Sherlock smiles wryly.

[the_very_best]

"I think I'll go raid your library and wind down for the night," Bella says, getting up from the table. "Tomorrow morning we can figure out some way to make an air-race interesting - maybe there's a bit of the woods gappy enough for everyone's wingspan to provide obstacles if they fly low? - we'll figure something out."

[toblameforit]

"Ooh," says Tony, and he starts playing with maps on the computer.

[the_very_best]

Bella grins at him and heads up. She finds a book, reads the book, and then crashes in the same room she did last time.

In the morning she comes down the stairs, whistling.

[toblameforit]

Tony is still playing with maps.

[the_very_best]

"Did you get up early, or just not get any sleep?" asks Bella.

[toblameforit]

"Up early," he says cheerfully. "G'morning!"

[the_very_best]

"Morning! Have you come up with a good place to go flying?"

[toblameforit]

"There's options! Wanna see?"

[the_very_best]

"Yes please!"

[toblameforit]

Tony makes there be maps, hovering three-dimensionally in the air.

[the_very_best]

Bella peers at them. "Oh, neat, this forest has a good ratio of tall skinny trees to low dense trees. We can agree on an altitude limit there, pick a spot to turn back at, race'll be to and fro? I think there's enough room between the one kinda treetops and the other for Rachis to get a wingbeat in, and her wings are the biggest."

[toblameforit]

"Yep," says Tony. "Sounds good to me."

[the_very_best]

"All right." Bella can't really manipulate the maps from here; she picks a visible tree. "That far away enough to make things interesting, you think?"

[toblameforit]

"Yep! Say we have to go past it and around?"

[the_very_best]

"Sure!"

[toblameforit]

"Cool," says Tony.

[the_very_best]

"Is Sherlock up yet?"

[toblameforit]

"Who knows. I haven't seen him."

[the_very_best]

"Oh well. What's the breakfast situation, should I eat something I packed or what?"

[toblameforit]

"Your options are eat something you packed, grab something snacky from the kitchen, wait for Sherry to wake up, or get me to try cooking breakfast and I guarantee you he will run down the stairs and take away my spatula, possibly in his sleep."

[the_very_best]

Bella laughs. "What happens if I try to cook something?"

[toblameforit]

"No idea," says Tony. "You any good at it?"