by TheRedFox » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:42 am
Jake smiled, "yeah, me too." But he was still being calculating on the inside, despite the friendly composure. How to go from here to figuring out why Kuro was hanging around? "By the way, thanks for the help on the way to the beach yesterday," he commented.
Erin spun the child for a good 10 seconds longer than previously, also a lot faster so that she flew higher. It was amazing she hadn't ripped Ingrid's arms off, it felt like her own were going to pop out at the elbow! When she started descent unto landing, she said "annnnnnd, down we go!" Ingrid collapsed on the sand, unable to keep her feet (again) immediately. Erin sat down next to her, laying flat on the sand and pretending to be dead from too much spinning. Ingrid recovered quickly. "Again! Again!" she pleaded, sitting over Erin with her hair hanging in Erin's face. "Nooope!" Erin announced, her eyes closed, "you've killed me! Too much spinning!" she cried dramatically. Ingrid giggled, "Pleaaaaase?!" she said, pulling and pushing on Erin's limp arm. "Nope! We have to do something else now," Erin persisted. "Like whaaaat?" Ingrid said in that pouty tone of hers. Erin smiled and leaned up to whisper in her ear. Ingrid went stock still, listening to what Erin was saying and then grinned broadly, bounding in the direction of the two boys.
(I think we're about to play bury the teenage boy... who should she grab?)
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
Leonardo da Vinci
If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can’t I?
Orville Wright
“More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.”
Wilbur Wright
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
Henry Jones: I didn't know you could fly a plane.
Indiana: Fly yes… land no.
Harrison Ford, in the 1989 movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Dead Reckoning: You reckon correctly, or you are.
Engine Failure: A condition which occurs when all fuel tanks mysteriously become filled with air.