"See, you're getting it!" Kaya said, grinning. "I don't try to charge upward like that though: that looks more like what those superheroes do, and they don't have wings. You sort of want to go WITH the atmosphere, not charge against it. Think more like, say, a butterfly or a bird."

Oh, teasing time. "Well, you could always have her exhaust you enough so that by the time you sleep, it won't matter, right?"