"Heh. Definitely."

"Um, I assume you don't age either, right? What with the shapeshifting?"

"Not that I've noticed, no."

"Oh good, I'd feel like a real jerk bragging about it otherwise. Though now I'm curious whether you could shapeshift into a kid or an old person if you wanted to."

They ripple -

And they're in a new form. "Yeah, though I generally like being this age, and would rather look old than like a kid. Still, different faces are fun sometimes."

The second, very different humanoid face throws Margaret for a momentary loop, then she says, "Yeah, it's a good age to look. Or at least I think so, but then I've never looked any older than sixteen."

"Maybe you can try looking like an ancient dragon sometime."

"Heh. Maybe if I have another space job and get hit by a bunch of meteoroids and scratch up my paint."

"Always good to have an excuse for a new paint job."

"I'm so not surprised that you would say that. I'm boring, I like being blue."

"It's a good color!"

"Thanks!" She flares and refolds her wings exuberantly. "Do you know when we should be getting back?"

"We're not in a rush, but probably soon-ish, yeah..."

"Hmm, better early than late, I think--it's easy to lose track of time when I'm having fun."

"Yeah, definitely. Head back, then?"

"Yes, let's. This was great though, way more fun than it would have been alone."

"Yeah! Race you back to the building?"

"You're on!" Any excuse to go zoom!

Silv turns into a long, snakey flying being, with numerous wings along their length and a frilled back. They're quite fast in this shape, and don't tire easily.

That is a really excellent number of wings to have. What an elegant form. "Did you design that yourself?" She calls over the wind. "It's neat!"

They trill back: "Yeah! Took some time, but it's fun!"

"I'm really impressed! How much biology detail work did you have to do?"

"A good bit - not on, like, a sub-cellular level, but I was messing around with bone densities and tendon attachment points and nerve networking a lot."

"Wow. That's awesome!"

Heeeeeeeeeee. "It's fun! Took me a pretty long while, though... Worked half by trial and error and a third by just feel, since books weren't really explaining things the way I needed."