auroraexpress | (no subject)

Who: everyone
When: Day 35 morning
Where: the lounge car

[This morning, or whenever you wake up, you will find that there are delicious smells wafting from the lounge car. Upon investigation, one will discover a beautiful spread of hot cocoa and tea and coffee and many marshmallow animals, ideal for putting in your drinks or simply eating wholesale. It isn't just cats either, but many animals of a similar quality of marshmallow, whatever kinds you'd like. But you may find the warm fuzzies they impart might be a bit more than internal.

In a conspicuous place is a note in handwriting many of you may find quite familiar at this point:

Thanks for your help.

- Hazel

His signature isn't alone, either. There are a couple of others, though somehow they're far less readable? Some are definitely just little drawings. Weird.]

[[ooc notes: 10% furry event!! many marshmallows have no effect, but those that do will instill temporary animal parts up to a kemonomimi level! enjoy your ears and tails, folks. and your newbies.]]

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Yes! They're big, soft, and would definitely be able to soften any fall!

Nnno.

Yep! I'm pretty confident about this one.

Okay new subject.

New subject! You know, I wonder how difficult it is to take clothes off and put 'em on with wings.

Zippers or buttons in the back would be all clothes would need... Did your wings just punch through your shirt?

They sure did.

[ He flutters his wings slightly. ]

Yikes!

I'll just have to get 'em fixed, it's not that big a deal.

[leaning around to look at his back, wolf ears forward in curiousity. she likes this subject MUCH better.]

The wings didn't hurt going through? Or I guess the spellwork covered that. I don't hurt when I shift.

Yeah, it didn't hurt at all. Just suddenly-- there they were.

What do you think the shelf life of these marshmallows is?

....Huh. I hadn't thought about that.

It would be cool, right?

It would be! Wings whenever the mood strikes me, no wings when they don't!

And no trouble with clothes!

Exactly! It's the best of all worlds.

My teammate has wings and we had to figure out if he could even swim or not with them.

Oh yeah? How'd that work out?

He can do the breaststroke and use his wings to help, but it's a little awkward looking. Neither of you have wings like a diving bird.

That makes sense. There's a reason not every bird hunts around water.

[running her hands along the arm of his wing, counting feathers]

And most of the ones that do don't use their wings once they hit the water. Ospreys and eagles will hunt fish, but they try to take off once they've got them. Cormorants keep their wings shut when they're underwater— gannets will open their wings when they dive, but their wings are pointed to reduce drag. You have wings for maneuverability instead.

[ He spreads a wing out to make it easier for her. ]

You know a lot about birds, huh? That's pretty cool.

This isn't even the surface of what I have to know about birds. Like I know I said "most," but that's totally ignoring things like puffins. Underwater thrust follows a lot of the same principles as aerial lift, so that can totally be taken advantage of with a well-built wing. But yeah! Obviously my speciality is dragons and my personal research focuses on their flight and the adaptations of magic-assistance, but I double a lot onto birds. They're much more readily available for study, wing physics works whether it's a bird, a dragon, or an airplane, and I've had more than a couple jobs animating bird skeletons for locomotion studies. So it's basically like my job to know?

When you put it that way, it makes complete sense. So what are some of the differences between dragon flight and bird flight?

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