Forearm grab, shake shake. "Pleased to meet and rescue you."

"Pleased to be rescued, I think."

"Where are we going now?"

"Well, if you don't have anywhere else to be, I was going to tote you with me to my city. It's called Atriama. Looks like this." He displays a picture.

"Woahhh."

"We've never been anywhere else, so . . ."

"Could have been someone was smuggling you letters from a pen pal or you wanted to go land on someone who was a facility janitor two years ago, I didn't know! But you are all welcome in Atriama."

"Okay.  We, uh, don't how to take off."

"That's okay, it'd be a really long way to fly by wing anyway. I have a shuttle on top of that building over there," point, "and the building has an elevator if you can't take off to fly up."

"Which is good because I definitely can't take off."

"Yeah, even if you want a set of wings I don't reckon I can teach you to fly in the next ten minutes. Do you want some food, they've been ravenous but maybe they let you order your own takeout." Do the kids want, uh, what's minimally processed. Edamame and nuts.

The kids are starting to slow down a little but yeah, edamame and nuts!

"It's been mostly adequate but they did miss breakfast today."

Egg salad sandwich?

He eats it, yeah.  "Thank you."

"Anytime. Why haven't you guys learned to take off, do you usually just stand there in the wind tunnel till it's strong enough to scoop you up?"

"Pretty much."

"Man, I hope you actually have strong enough wings that you can take off, I didn't anticipate a need for a wind tunnel in Atriama." He swipes a grape off the fruit platter. "Are you guys all ready to go or do you want to pack or hit the bathroom or anything?"

The oldest girl looks at the rest of them.  "We're good."

The doctor nods.

Then Cam will lead the party on foot to the building. Calls Felicity.

"Hello.  How's your patient doing?"

"I think he'll be fine. I have here six kids with wings who don't know how to take off and their rescued captive surgeon. Everything clear for me to call the shuttle down to street level so we don't have to cram into the elevator?"

"Stots.  I can arrange that given a few minutes, I think.  You want me in the shuttle?  - One moment."  There's a brief background conversation barely audible through the call.  "Kennedy wants to know whether she should also get in the shuttle.  She's composed a writeup of her situation, as you asked, and she says she'd be 'awful grateful' to ride it to the ground even if that's as far as she'd be going today."

"...yeah, sure, I may be making a trip to Atriama sooner than I'd intended anyway."