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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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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?

Dragons have six limbs versus birds' four total limbs and they general have membrane-covered wings more like a bat or a pterodacytl. Also, dragons have their own magic and many of them use that to support their flight. There's a lot of species that wouldn't be able to fly at all on strength alone!

That's pretty cool. Are their any dragons that would be able to fly without magic?

Some of the smaller soaring species, maybe. They just need to get airborne. But even my little Lori would have used magic for flight. The magical enhancement is really what allows for strong, flexible arms to exist in the same muscular space as strong wings.