"Bird people," says Angela, amused, fluffing her wings.

"Lots of people play games where they run stuff," says Stella. "Why's that such good evidence?"

"'Cause she's the only person in the whole school who got an empire to run," he says. "And she took to it like it was the best thing ever."

"Some kind of adaptive game, figured out she'd like an empire and gave her one? That's cute."

"I think I might need to visit some other Bell for a while and get accustomed to the world just so I can have a prayer of knowing what you're talking about more than half the time," says Angela.

"...Hey," says Sue, "if you're magic, can you give me wings too? For a bit?"

"If we do that, and you wake up before we undo it," says Angela, "I'm not sure what would happen."

"Yeah, even if we make it explicitly temporary... you could wake up and your mindscape could expect you to have wings, which might not be temporary because Milliways fucks around with time, and then you'd go around with phantom limbs until you came here again, and we're not guaranteed to be around to fix it."

"Or something. I'm not sure it's safe."

"I wanna fly, though," he says.

"Little bitty Whistle, I am a magic space empress who invents new superpowers for herself like some people buy new socks. I don't have wings. Doesn't mean I can't fly. You wanna do it my way? I'm faster than her anyway," laughs Stella, aiming a thumb at Angela. "And then, worst case scenario of that is that you wake up and you can fly, no phantom limb issues."

"I'm not a little bitty Whistle," he asserts, pointing at Alice and Micaiah, who are watching all this with fond amusement. "They're great big Sues."

"I'm not hearing a yes or no on flying sans wings," says Stella.

"Yeah, I wanna fly!"

"There you go," says Stella, performing no visible action whatsoever. "C'mon, this place has an outside." And she lifts two inches into the air and drifts towards the door.

Stella giggles and tows him to the back door.

Angela follows after them, looking forward to stretching her wings.

When they get outside, Sue abandons the hug and rockets up into the sky.

Angela offers her arms to Micaiah, if he wants to be carried, although she doesn't just scoop him up as he's in the occasional habit of growing his own wings.

Stella zooms into the air herself, catapulting herself into balletic spins and laughing.

Micaiah decides to be carried this time. He snuggles into Angela's arms.

Alice follows Stella and Sue.

Sue chases Stella.

Angela can't keep up with any of this, but she can go aloft and hover and kiss Micaiah on the forehead and begin to sing. Not a prayer, but a ballad.