The Sixth Sortie [Action]

[yellowthirteen]

[With the event over, Thirteen feels much safer about venturing out into the village.  ...The last thing he wanted is any memories of the Ulysses incident getting out.  He may have told Martel about it, but the visions of what he saw still haunt him.

But regardless of that, Thirteen heads out into the village in the morning to get some groceries and other essentials.   But in his curiosity, he browses through the item shop and the bazaar, and eventually stumbles across an interesting find.   A plastic model kit of an F-4E Phantom II and modelling supplies.  ...Well, why not?  Might as well kill some time. 

He can be found later inside Good Spirits, painting and assembling the model to have Erusian colors.

Anyone can run into him while he's out in the village, or feel free to talk to him while he's working on the model.]

Comments

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

[Martel gets a smile as she approaches. It's always nice to see her.]

This is a fighter aircraft from my world. It's able to fly through the air faster than the speed of sound and meant to shoot down other aircraft. This plane is older than most in the Erusian Air Force, but it served well in its time.

[martelandmany.livejournal.com]

So somehow you're to tell me that, in a world without the power of mana to keep it aloft, a machine so large as that managed to stay airborne?

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely.

[He puts the brush down and carefully turns the model's tail to face Martel. He points to one of the two engines on the back.]

These engines provide immense amounts of power, or thrust. They're powered by a special type of high-performance fuel. But when these engines fire up, they allow the plane to move at high speed.

[And then he slowly turns the plane around and points to one of the wings.]

With that speed, these wings here... they generate lift, which pulls the plane into the air and can keep it there.

[martelandmany.livejournal.com]

[She'll be looking a little closer at the 'engines', then looking over the plane as a whole again.] Fascinating.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

It's rather amazing what engineers all over the world have come up with in the past century or two.

But... what is the power of mana? Is that how machines are powered in your world?

[martelandmany.livejournal.com]

Magitechnology. [A nod.] Mana... is life. It is in us all, in the plants, in the world itself.