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Sohalia reached her hands above her head, stretching luxuriously in the sun - not unlike her tide jaguar shift - before reaching for her drink and taking a sip. It really was a beautiful day, and so pleasant to just be helping Flora with her quest rather than partaking in the drama that seemed to follow the pair of them around these days. "Thermals make it way easier," she said. "You don't have to work nearly as hard to stay airborne. Like - okay, so with birds, it's a matter of how much energy you're expending to stay afloat, right? So anything that can help you use less energy - so you can save that energy for hunting or what have you - is good. Thermals are great for that. Makes it almost effortless."

Then she paused, shifting a little to get more comfortable. "A breeze can help or hinder. If you're going with the wind, it can help you go faster on less energy. But if you're going against the wind? Then it's a struggle. I imagine it's the same kind of thing as when you're sailing - going into the wind has to be impossible, right?" She looked at Flora curiously. Soh was not a sailor, and therefore was simply guessing. It just seemed reasonable that a sailboat could only go with the wind, but she'd been wrong before.

As for a dead patch... "Dead patches just mean you have to work to keep going - flapping your wings, as a bird. I'm not sure how it works for an inanimate object."

Sohalia