Want me to sharpen my claws or scratch rock or something? Those are nice sounds, too.

"Sure, let's get a whole library of them, I'll mix it in."

That's a nice way to spend the rest of the day. He might get bored of it after a week but has plenty of patience for now.

The next day he asks Meksi, Can you ask if they've decided on the flying sequences yet? Even if they're not ready to record, I can practice. Or if there's anything else to do? I can always just exercise if not. And I go back to the other movie soon right?

She asks. They have a storyboard, here it is! And he doesn't actually have to be at the other studio for a while but he is invited to scripting sessions and auditions and a concept art showcase.

Neat. He will practice flying according to the storyboard a bit and then fly back to the big studio, since he's looking forward to trying a flight harness and maybe the rigger has one ready now. And be back here in four days to fight Flicker, that being the last day she could come and still make her trip back to the other planet.

The rigger has a harness ready! But there aren't any stuntgreys around today; they don't hang around the studio between jobs, generally.

Aww, I was so excited. I could at least see how it fits?

Sure, the purple can put it on and snug it up.

It feels kind of weird. Especially where it goes around his limbs. See how it stretches and strains if he turns like this?

Hmmm, he can snug up this connecting portion to compensate for loosening those bits.

That seems much better. Thank you! This is going to be cool. I'm going to have to learn how to move without snapping anything in this, though, maybe I should fly around some with it on?

"Go for it! Let me know if anything rubs or pulls unpleasantly. Aaaand lemme put something between here and here nice and loose as an indicator for whether flying might strain something on a rider."

He flies!

He can't do a lot of his most extreme twists and spins and so on with this thing on without straining things pretty badly, but the tamer stunts still work alright and 'basic' flying is perfectly comfortable.

"Let me go get a dummy on there and see how that works out."

Good idea.

He will fly with a dummy strapped in. It slows him down a bit and feels weirder. He doesn't try anything particularly bold.

"You don't have to worry about damaging it, that's what it's for."

It's floppy! And dragging at the air!

He steps up the moves, though.

The rigger assesses the dummy's condition and whisks it and the harness away.

Well, that was less fun than he had hoped. Maybe it will be better with someone who he can feel the joy of flight from instead of a stupid dummy.

Meksi, you said something about auditions and concept art and scripting?

"Mm-hm, do you want to look at concept art on the pocket everything or should I ask them to bring it to your room? They're doing some auditions with actors who have relationships with the studio over the next few days, you can sit in on those or meet them after they've done them. Script draft is due in six weeks but those run late a lot."

Pocket everythings are too small to see anything! The second thing. It's probably good to meet people. Is there a more detailed script outline yet?

"They're still workshopping it. They need to go through a lot of ideas and filter for the best ones. You can tell them which concept art you like and they can iterate from that theme."

Okay, that sounds good. I'm not the last word still, right? But that's fine if I have at least some kind of say.

"Right, you can be overridden but they'll pay attention."

I don't know what I might reject until I see it. Maybe if they want me to act in a really un-Draak-like way?