"I figured they would just be harder to handle," Kaya said, and flexed her own. "Two for me are hard enough, because you have to flap them just so, so you stay in balance and so you keep the rest of your body flexible so you an get higher."

She demonstrated, letting her wings do the work. In a way, the wings knew when to use the currents in the air, you just had to judge when they were about. Somehow you could sense then the air around was too heavy, that using the wings would just be too arduous in that particular place.

"Would it be easier if you kept your arms and legs down?"