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Haha! This is so classic, I can just see these youngsters, so full of the confidence that comes from having a bit of knowledge, skill, and not nearly enough experience!

(Thank goodness they're Elves, they might not have lived to learn from it otherwise!)

Yes, they knew what they were doing...right up until gravity proved they didn't.

(Don't worry, young humans have tried similar things from similar heights and lived to tell the tale. There were all manner of shenanigans involving the shed roof and the tire swing at my great-aunt's when I was a kid, and the worst that ever happened was a broken leg.)

This fits right in with the flight sequence, adding all kinds of detail to the tale of the wooden wings. I love the line at the end, the image of broken wings and cousins, with how broken the cousins might be left to the imagination.