“Okay, but how does it fly?” Mourn asks, sparking that look of excitement in the tiny fox pilots eyes.

“Well there is this bit in the middle! That’s called the keel! It has a weight in it, and it moves inside the keel to shift the centre of gravity when I spin this wheel! Now I do that to -”

And there he goes, rambling about the various nobs and wheels, levers and what happens when he pulls them, why it happens when he pulls them. Simplified explanations, though not dumbed down, Semper wouldn’t insult her like that.

They were simplified down in the way that he understood it, as he himself didn’t need to know the technical intricacies, they were the simple explanations which he had, and the ones he gave to her as an equal.

“-now that one extends the-”

“But how does it fly?” she interrupts.

Mourn was enjoying his rambles, though she did actually want an answer to her question.

“Oh, right, well! A boat needs water?” he explains. “Water pushes against the bottom, gravity pushes down and the boat is squished between them! We create our own water, though not LITERAL water, just the upwards force! That’s done by artificial buoyancy! Which, we have two of, one on the left and the other on the right! That’s to keep us balanced!”

“How does the artificial buoyancy work?”

“I don’t actually know, pipes, and stuff? Pipes filled with liquid? And there is some spinning stuff? Spinning pipes?”

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