Lots of people want to talk to Pen! Lots! And they really want to talk to her!

Walta shouts at people out that no, nobody else can get wings, you should all shut up and not bother the wing kid if she doesn't want to talk to you.

This only gets rid of most of them. A few want to talk about how her wings catch air, how the feathers work and so on. "I'm pretty curious about that too actually."

"I dunno physics stuff!"

The people at the flying course know a lot about the physics of flight! Does it seem more like this, or this, does she tilt down one corner of her wings to turn, what's her stall speed...

She doesn't know much of what they want to know but she will show them how she flies around.

Can they take pictures and videos? Would she be willing to hold this thingy that measures her speed while she does it?

Sure why not.

Thank you, angel kid!

(Walta fends off the most pushy people during all this, but also pays attention to everyone's questions and analysis).

"Easy course, medium, hard, or so hard it's silly? Easy one is just four gentle turns, medium is more sharper turns and a dive, and so on."

"Start medium?"

Medium course it is! Follow all the yellow signs and stay inside the yellow rings (they're plenty big to go through, even if she was an adult angel) and make sure to go between the yellow flags, that's it.

Swoop!

And how fast is she?

On a straightaway with some time to accelerate, 40MPH.

She gets pretty close to the record for the 'unpowered flight' category!

...Which starts off a big argument about whether Pen really counts as 'unpowered'.

"Am not have an engine."

But the wings and strength probably make her meaningfully different from a baseline human!

(They probably aren't going to decide one way or the other any time soon.)

Her only substantial opinion on the subject is that she does not have an engine. She will be faster when she's grown up.

"While the rules people yammer on we can keep flying."

Walta's flight method has no less than eight wings at odd angles and does not technically have an engine. It's powered by a bunch of springs wound up so tight they'd snap if they were just steel - some kind of technology.

She wait in line for the hard course, then, "WHOOO!"

Pen wants to try the hard one next too.

It is: Hard! But not impossible. It was designed to be hard for things less nimble than angels.

She will do this one twice!

This is a fun place.

There's an open flight area, no course and no timers, Walta heads into that and cruises around practicing stunts. Her thing is pretty slow but good at not losing much speed even in absurdly sharp turns.

Does she want to play tag?

[Sure! Only a couple minutes at a time though, zephyr can't fly by itself long.]

[It run out of fuel?] guesses Pen.

[Sort of.] And she explains the spring-driven mechanism that keeps it so light and streamlined from lack of proper engine.