"I have done one of those things. Kettles Are Good." There's is a pause with audible mental whirring. "Right, yes, breakfast is a thing."

This is an unbearably cute time traveler. "I'll grab you and take you down to the breakfast."

Breakfast is assorted pastries, bread, fruit, jams, oatmeal, cereal, yogurt, granola, hot chocolate, tea, coffee, and juice. He can also obtain waffles, pancakes, or french toast.

Once they're at breakfast, Jing Yi appears much more human.

There is a touch of suspicious zombie-like staring at the food, before grabbing a bowl of oatmeal.

Oatmeal tastes almost but not entirely quite unlike congee!

Lev grabs a plate of waffles and covers them with a truly excessive amount of maple syrup.

Oatmeal is Definitely Food, and that's what matters right now.

And of course Lev would go for the very sweet rectangles. He's a very adorable Cascadian after all.

"Oh man, you're going to get to fly for the first time!" 

Bounce bounce bounce.

"I've just got to hope it doesn't require me knowing what I'm doing."

"Nope, you just sit in your chair and let someone else fly the plane for you."

Should he tell Jing Yi about windows. Nah. That should be a surprise.

"Oh, that's good. I was worried I would have to navigate."

Now they will head off to the airport!

Lev is shamelessly taking advantage of his TS clearance to skip the security lines.

Seeing as how long those queues are, Jing Yi is not complaining.

Lev is a strong believer in the "if you never miss your flight you're spending too much time in airports" approach to flying, so they arrive about five minutes before boarding. 

Jing Yi is directed into a metal tube and told to sit on a VERY uncomfortable seat. 

Planes look really weird. Jing Yi has no context. He does have a moment of 'Wow, that is a lot of metal.'

Alas, the streak of good Cascadian furniture had to come to an end.

The flight attendants offer a somewhat terrifying series of instructions for what to do in the case that the plane falls out of the sky or runs out of oxygen, whatever that is. 

... at least he knows what to do in an emergency.

But. Uh. Hopefully neither of those things happen?

And then the plane takes off and Lev gestures towards the window and says, "look! Look!"

Take off feels very alarming. It is very fast and loud and then they are climbing up into the air and he could have maybe guessed this would have happened from the description of flying but this is higher than he expected and they are still climbing.

He looks out the window and wow they really are very high up! Help! At least Lev seems to consider this as 'exciting' and not 'an imminent threat to life and limb'? That's... something.

"You can see everything from up here. All of Coalinga."

"You really can." It's pretty, but also still a bit terrifying.

"Don't worry. Planes are one of the safest forms of transit. Safer than walking, honestly."

"Does walking, in your experience, ever come with the risk of falling out of the sky? I'll admit I don't know how Cascadians walk."

"No, but it comes with the risk of being hit by a car."

"Okay, that's fair."

(As he gets more used to it, the balance shifts in favour of 'pretty!' of terror. And they're rising up above the first layer of wispy clouds, and he's getting to see clouds from above-- and okay that's pretty darn good.)

"I read an essay once that said that, in spite of nuclear war and the fertility crisis and the rise of Christian fundamentalism, we're blessed because we're the only humans who have ever seen the tops of clouds."

He stares out the window, the clouds going from wispy to something more like a fog. "I can't say I disagree with them, from where I'm sitting."