Baixue
I almost fell to my death until I realised I could fly, the words entered the girl's head as she remembered the perilous experience. More specifically, until the great Aqui bestowed me the power to.
"Well, I guess I have gotten hurt, once or twice.....sometimes it's important to fall, like eaglets in discomforting nests dropped by their parents from the sky in order to teach them to fly....it's important that you learn, and to suffer hardship, as it would prepare." She could not associate her haven of happiness back in her tribe with that statement in itself, but her experience where she almost fell while attempting to witness an aurora back in those snowy lands had given her that lesson, that important cogitation that she clung to her tightly, knowing the hardships that would confront her, now alone in the outside world. She did not want to discuss the sentiment of her experience of her and her quest to find the great Aqui, finding it too valuable and personal of a memory to divulge. She couldn't help but wonder if the other chosen ones were also in pursuit of the beings that bestowed upon them their power. "Back in Aquillo, homework doesn't exactly exist, so while I can't relate, I think we can both agree that there's a first time for everything."
Baixue inhaled a deep breath, trying to let the rush of excitement, freedom and euphoria sink in and fill her. She did that every time before she flied, believing it would fulfil the joys of her idiosyncratic ability to fly to its fullest.
"Anyways, come on." She knelt down with her back facing Haruki, gesturing for him to sidle himself comfortably on her back as she prepared their flight. "I'm all set. Again -- don't remember to hold tight! I promise I'll give you the ride of the lifetime. Better than that airplane," Her cheeks puffed yet again at the remembrance of the jejune flying experience, "I must profess that it ruined a bit of my day there, and I think you can understand why. I'll show you what real flying is like."