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09 [Physical Location | Open] Gotta fly now

For some reason, Madelyne decided on taking the tram (the Transverto line to Orbis) to visit Remus today. She was idly looking out the window when she saw something, it was a flicker of something as the car moved along the tracks. Before she'd had time to process it, she was standing and signalling to stop at the next station. It was almost too long, she almost had to wait for too long to the next stop and almost broke a window to get out to go find it. Once she got out, she flew back along the tram line, the green glow surrounding her in the air, until she saw it again.

A small clearing in the trees with a small hangar and an airstrip.

When she lands, Madelyne stands there for a few moments, catching her breath, unable to believe what she's seeing. When it passes, she speeds into the hangar, a prayer on on her lips that she finds granted.

There is a Cessna 206 sitting in the hangar.

It has seen better days but she thinks she can get it working with some work. She doesn't even notice the swelling inspirational music after a little bit of time as she works. She misses lunch, she misses dinner and the sun has sent, the hangar lights on, by the time she pulls herself away from cleaning and repairing the little plane. She looks at it with a smile on her face, covered in dirt and oil and numerous other smudges - tired but content.

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"Will that be airworthy, do you think?"

Jason's voice comes from the hangar's open door. He's leaning against the corrugated steel wall, arms crossed. Who knows how long he's been there watching her work.

"With a little more work, yes."

Somehow Madelyne doesn't seem entirely shocked that he's there.

He nods slightly, studying the lines of steel, the clean angles of the wings.

"And what do you intend to do with it, then?"

"Fly, obviously. That's what they're for, you know."

There is a faint grin and she shakes her head, "We'll see if Extras will show up for sight seeing tours. Maybe some of them will want to parachute but I'll have to find parachutes first. There might be some around here."

"Mmnhh," is Jason's only response to the mild, teasing sarcasm. He studies the plane a few more seconds in silence.

"And would you accept non-Extra passengers? I would like to see the city from the air. It may be educational."

"Sure. I have a feeling there will be a few people who want to go up to look or to jump out, depending."

Madelyne rolls her shoulders and turns her neck, trying to stretch it out some.

A thin smile. "Well, I assure you have I no plans to jump out, at least. Merely survey the lay of the land."

It bothers him that he hasn't found any ley lines yet. Strange. Strange city. Unnatural.

"I am all but certain someone will. I'm not not entirely certain who or why just yet." She closes her eyes for a few moments and then turns to look at him.

"Looking for anything in particular or just looking?

"I'll assume that certainty is based on an understanding of human nature rather than some precognitive flash."

He shrugs at the question, pushing off from the wall. "Patterns. Perspective, Both things easier to see from a distance."

"I've never had any ability with the future, though I guess there is always a first time. Mostly, I know we have enough bored adrenaline seekers that someone will want to try it."

Madelyne nods, "Well, I still have a bit of work before she'll be ready."

"I'm certain you'll have no shortage of takers."

Blood studies the plane again, vaguely nostalgic; he remembers days before human flight was a capability, he remembers Kitty Hawk, and the doomed aerodromes before it, and attempts stretching back even to da Vinci.

His life's let him see many a wonder. Sometimes he even remembers that.

"Of course. Do let me know when you're ready to take up passengers, then."

"Probably tomorrow, maybe the day after? You can check but it should be tomorrow. I'm going to have to test it a few flights to make sure before I take anyone else up."

Madelyne smiles as she looks over at him, uncertain how to voice her thoughts. He's looking at the plane is a certain way and she's not entirely sure how to ask about it.

"Only prudent. I am sure your passengers-to-be appreciate that caution."

Jason doesn't return the smile, if indeed he's noticed she's smiling, but instead moves further into the hangar, up to the Cessna's propeller. He lifts a hand, taps against the curved blade of steel that cuts the wind a thousand times a minute when in flight.

"I have slipped the surly bonds of earth / And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..."

He speaks quietly, mostly to himself. Jason Blood claims not to like poetry, but it's impossible not to absorb a knowledge of it, not when you have Etrigan as a houseguest.

"Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth /Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things / You have not dreamed of..."

It was spoken quietly but there isn't exactly a lot of other noise in the hangar and it is one of Madelyne's favorite poems - not that she knows all that many of them to begin with. "I just want to make sure she actually flies."

He starts just a bit at the sound of her voice carrying on the poem, eyes cutting sideways to her as if he'd half-forgotten she was there.

"...just so," he says after several seconds, with a nod. "A fan of poetry, Miss Pryor?"

"Not in general but that one, very much so."

Madelyne rubs at her face and then realizes she's just smearing dirt and oil around and stops.

He observes her, then wordlessly retrieves a folded handkerchief from trousers pocket and offers it. Not that she has to take it, but the offer is there.

His eyes track back to the plane. And the poem. Touched the face of God... Ha. Not for him, at any rate. There are some from whom God turns His face away.

"I suppose our captors see fit to give us such projects and keep us busy."

It takes her a moment to realize that he's offering it to her for her face before she accepts and does what she can to clean up without a mirror.

"Well, it is better than being bored enough to decide to try something stupid."

He puts his hands in his pockets, leans his head back to take in the hangar's ceiling as well as the plane itself.

"And what 'stupid thing' might boredom tempt you to do, miss Pryor? Or are you speaking only of the, how did you say, adrenaline seekers?"

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"I hadn't gotten to that point yet, so I haven't really gotten to trying something yet. Or coming up with something but I'm certain there must have been people who have tried killing themselves repeatedly or blowing something up?"

Madelyne shrugs lightly, not indicating that she'd actually be interested in either option.

"Perhaps. I wouldn't know. You've been here longer than I have."

Jason's no more interested in trying to kill himself-- whether by airplane or anything else-- than Maddy is. He's done enough of that back in the real world.

He gives Madelyne a little nod, then turns on his heel for the hangar's open door again. "Do let me know when you're ready to fly, Miss Pryor."

"I will. It should be soon - the next few days unless something unexpected happens."

Which, around here, could be just about anything from singing to kaiju creatures.

Later in the evening, as he was just rising, Josef checked the tablet. He found several things going on in the city...

And Madelyne working on a plane. Well. well.

He grinned, sending her a text for when she took a break.

Look what you found.

Isn't it wonderful?

Oh but he could hear the grin in those texted words.

She is. How close to ready for flight?

Probably tomorrow unless I fund something really strange or the hamsters have changed how planes work somehow.

And doing the work yourself?

He found it interesting she knew that kind of work. More than interesting but he wasn’t even sure the word for it.

I’m impressed.

I'm not trusting it to an Extra, that's certain.

I almost asked if you would have safety devices.

But he also accepted she could well be the safety device with all he knew she could.

Still good to have. You never know what can happen. Especially here.

Madelyne is amused, still.

Glad to see you doing something you enjoy.

It is a good feeling. And a job, too.

Doing air tours? I'd be curious to see.

And to get a view of it all from above. Maps were one thing, that was another.

You're not the only one it seems. Yes, there will be tours.

I figure most will be curious about finding a way out.

Not that he was sure he was.

Or just curious. I just like flying.

I wasn't referring to you, so much. Or myself. Just in general.

That's fair. We'll see how it goes but it will be nice to have something to do.

If there's anything I can help with, just remember, I have poor mechanical skills.

Thank you but I am enjoying doing this on my own.

Of course. I'm glad this happened for you.

Me too.

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