Stormy cackles delightedly.

Marie grins. The flying gets a little less sharp, minute lulls in the wind combined with precisely angled gusts sending them in loops and arcs.

Wheeeeee!

Stormy doesn't seem to be sick or dizzy either.

Well, then they can keep flying for a while, can't they?

They can!

Stormy will not complain about being put down.

"You know what I forgot to do? I forgot to get breakfast. I should probably get some sort of lunch."

"Bar has food. I'm hungry too, we've been out here for hours and hours. ...And I still have no money so I guess I have to run up a tab anyway..."

"Well, lunch probably isn't too expensive. If you're really worried about running up a tab I could cover you."

"If you don't mind. It sounded like you were worried about expenses."

"I'm worried about expenses on a scale of nifty technology to bring home, not on a scale of lunch."

"Oh. Then I will totally take lunch. It wasn't anywhere near meal time when I found my door."

"I mean, worst come to worst I could probably get my parents to reimburse me for lunch. I'm probably going to have to tell them about Milliways anyway."

"How come?"

"The person with the convenient light powers that went so well with Helen's gave her a bunch of the light things she can make. We're storing them in my room. There are a lot of them."

"Oh. And you live with your parents."

"I'm only seventeen. Technically."

"I'm ten, but I live at the Winding Circle temple because that's where the people who know how to teach ambient mages are."

"We have boarding schools where I'm from but I don't go to one."

"...Helen and I reincarnate. This is my second life and her third. This body is seventeen years old but I am a little more than a hundred. The reincarnation is a secret, though, so I have to act like I'm seventeen."

"That sounds really annoying. Being a kid is bad enough when you are actually a kid."