o22 | written; your words keep me alive

[haruno]

What's flying like? For those of you who do.

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Sakura;

[payback]

Do you want to?

Rin;

[haruno]

Might be interesting.

[ Beats falling. ]

Sakura forever;

[payback]

I have a hot air balloon.

[Among other options, but she might wait suggesting those...]

[haruno]

[ Oh. Oh that's interesting. ]

Do you take it up often?

[unironically]

Light and quick, and at times disorienting. Geography which is familiar and commonplace on land presents new hazards, but there is also the chance to gain new perspectives.

[haruno]

Based on the height, or just the necessarily different way of seeing the world?

[unironically]

The height, yes, and flight renders it possible to interact with the world in a different orientation. Consider if you are truly freeflying you can flip yourself about easily, with the land appearing to hang above you, while the sky yawns below...

[haruno]

Makes for interesting mental images.

[cunning_carrier]

It's useful. Helps when you have to get from one place to another, and lives are on the line. I've never really cared about the aesthetics of it.

[haruno]

That's a practical way of looking at it. I can appreciate that. Anything you've ever had to be careful of when flying?

[cunning_carrier]

[He actually gives small snort, at that.]

Attack helicopters, various missiles, and assorted small arms fire, but I think that's specific to my problems.

[haruno]

You're from one of the more higher level technology worlds, from the sounds of it. You'd be hard pressed to find anything along those lines in the skies where I'm from.

Or here, I guess, discounting the First Generation and a few people the castle's brought in since then. What exactly is a helicopter?

written

[clarklike]

Pretty amazing. I used to be really reluctant to learn, but now that I've got the hang of it, I can't imagine not being able to.

forever

[haruno]

Was it something you grew into?

[clarklike]

A little bit. It was mostly getting over a fear of heights.

[haruno]

Not hard to see how that would inhibit flying. A little, at the least. It's pretty commendable that you managed to work through that fear.

[decibel_chamber]

There's nothin' else like it, believe me. I's like...y'get a sense o' freedom not possible anywhere else. I's dead useful, too. Allows ya t'go places y'normally couldn', see th' world from a new angle.

I wouldn' trade it fer anythin'.

[haruno]

Seems like the people who don't stick to practicality agree on that much. Flying's worth it, whatever it really boils down to being.

Why do you think it gives you that sense of freedom?