She glides! She flaps!

Flapping is harder to get the hang of, but still non-disastrous!

The Emperor circles around and swoops and dives, staying in the vicinity to keep an eye on her but otherwise having fun.

Wheeeeeee!

Awwww!

"This is fantastic, thank you."

"You're welcome! I'm glad you like them."

"They are beautiful and let me fly!"

Eeeeeee. "That was rather the idea, yes!"

Swoop?

Swoop! Gleeful Emperor applauding her swoop!

"Eee!"

Gleeful Emperor is so gleeful!!! "You're picking this up pretty fast!"

"How long does it normally take to learn?"

"I didn't have a good estimate but I was pretty sure I'd have to catch you once or twice in the first few minutes!"

"There seems to be some built in muscle memory."

"Yeah, I put that in, but I wasn't expecting you to get used to it so quickly. Maybe Elves are better at that sort of thing, or maybe I've gotten better at making usable wings." Swoop.

"We have a lot of bodily control, but I'm not sure what would be making me better at noting and using installed muscle memory."

"Then maybe I should be taking all the credit for your apparent talent. But either way, I'm very glad you like them so much."

"They are so excellent. I might keep them indefinitely."

Delighted laughter. "Will all your friends want their own?"

"Probably not that many of them - the Valar could probably do something like this but we don't actually have any winged Elves flying about - we tend pretty conservative for the most part."

"If it's only a few, I wouldn't mind." Swoop, climb, turn. "If you bring me three hundred Elves who all want wings I'm going to have better things to do with my time."

"If it catches on I'll convince Nessa to fill in."

"Who's that?"

"One of the Valar. Her title is 'the Dancer'. They have similar powers but specialize differently and she'd be who I'd go to about adding a form of locomotion."