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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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[raidraptors]

[Getting thrown... admittedly that was never a concern that Shun had while he had wings; he is neither small nor easily tossed after all. But yes, he sees how this is a concern. Honestly, he doesn't want to give this type of advise, not to Reira… but in this case it's a matter of practicality.]

Try to land on your sides or front; if you land on your back you'll pull feathers at best or break your wings in the worst case.

[Shun's never had latter problem, but he's watched Hiiragi run around with her wings broken long enough to know it's unpleasant and very inconvenient.]

No matter how you fall, the objective is to keep your wings as free as possible for a get away.

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Right.

Could I make a fan to change the fall with them?

[Wings block air-it stands to reason that he could probably turn where he's facing using those things right?]

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Probably yes.

[He can't say for sure, really… his experiences with wings are limited to that month as harpy, and though he can give some advice, though the scars on his back sometimes ache for those extra limbs, Shun knows he isn't the best person to ask for anything beyond the basics, so...]

Do you know a harpy that you trust?

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Yeah! [Apparently very much, if that sudden exclamation is any sign.]

Sometimes I sleep over in the daytime at her house

She used to fly me to Bavan when I was at the castle

[raidraptors]

[Well, that's good. Convenient even. He's not even going to ask what Reira was doing at a castle.]

If you have wing-related questions relay them to her. If she had her wings for a while, she should be able to give you pointers.

[TLDR ask an actual expert]

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Her wings are her arms though.

Yours weren't.

It's different.

[oh come ON-]

[raidraptors]

[Come on indeed.]

Mine were temporary.

[Experience is still a thing, but fine point taken.]

If it's about placement of wings, ask Hiiragi

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It's placement and feathers.

[But fine, he will accept that you no longer have them.]

Would you get wings again?

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[Shun thinks that the problems are mostly the same, feathers or not, but fine.]

No

[Sometimes... just sometimes he feels phantom ache at his back, longs for that split-second of free fall before he carries himself of his own strength, the feeling of soaring in the sky… but it's not enough to make him consider even in the slightest. His size is already problematic enough, he doesn't need to add wings to that.]

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Why?

[He probably should have seen that question coming.]

[raidraptors]

[He really should have.]

Because the drawbacks outweigh the benefits

[It's all about pragmatism.]

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Oh

[WAIT BUT DOES THAT MEAN-]

I made a mistake didn't I

[raidraptors]

[...]

Why did you wish for wings?

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I was a faerie for a few weeks

Flying was fun, and I could move fast that way

I got feather ones instead since the bird I saw flew through trees better

[raidraptors]

Are you having fun with your new wings?

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Yeah

I can catch more birds now, not just chickens. [Somewhere east of bavan, a farmer still curses this kid's fleeing tail-]

I picked the right feathers too, so I don't crash through bushes.

[raidraptors]

Then it wasn't a mistake.

[Reira has no business thinking in Shun's terms of pragmatism.]

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Because they're the right wings?

[Too Late]

[raidraptors]

Because they serve the purpose you got them for.

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[??????!!??]

Wouldn't the reason be wrong if I made a mistake though?

[raidraptors]

Why do you think that you made a mistake?

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You said 'the drawbacks outweigh the benefits'.

If you have more drawbacks, why wouldn't I have them?

[Because you're dead, cold immune, and small, kid. Altitude and cramped spaces aren't a problem there.]

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Because you aren't me

[Obviously.]

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[?!?!?!?

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But how does that change it?

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[gdi Brat]

You don't have to watch out that you don't hit the ceiling when you stand straight in a room

[Shun doesn't even want to know what kind of wing span he'd need to lift off. Of course, there are more reasons than that, but this is the one that won't end in them arguing again about how Reira isn't suited for the Battlefield. After the last week, Shun doesn't have the patience for that one right now.]