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Over the City, Marco was soaring overhead in osprey morph, looking down on the buildings below as he flew. Right now for Marco, things were looking pretty good. Jake was back. Cassie and Tobias were back. If it weren't for the fact that Rachel was still running mazes, they'd have had the whole gang back. He was pretty sure they soon enough they'd find themselves in the middle of another disaster (they always did), but for now, they were here, and they were alive.

He banked right, intending to fly on towards Cassie's house.

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<That polymorph thing comes with instincts?> Marco wondered aloud. (Well. not strictly speaking aloud.) But he wasn't really that concerned about getting an answer - instead he was extending his wings, preparing to take off. And Celena was right about one thing - her instincts were fine. The dragon knew exactly the right movements needed in order to get into the air, and so with a beat of his wings Marco launched into the sky.

<Hah!> he cried, exuberant. Sure, he'd flown plenty of times before - but it never really stopped being fun. And flying when he was a creature of this size was definitely a new thrill.

Of course, Marco was still careful - he kept to simple maneuvers, just gliding around and keeping airborne as he got used to the new morph.

"In a sense indeed, they allow the recipient of the spell the natural knowledge of the workings of the form they take on, as far as I can tell at least," she replied thoughtfully even as she watched on as he readied himself for take off.

Celena couldn't help but grin at the sight and sense of his exuberance on take off. She watched on for a moment as he flew about, getting a hold on her form even as she began to walk towards the end of the landing ramp, speeding up to a run before leaping off the end even as she spoke the command words to the ring, her form changing even as she dove off the edge, wings snapping open and swooping right on up past him. What could she say, she liked to show off from time to time when it came to flight.

So that 'spell' or whatever basically gave instincts as well. Marco made a quick mental note of that for later, before getting back to flying.

<Oh, sure, show off in front of the new dragon won't you?> Marco said with a roll of his eyes. He glided around in circles, just letting the dragon's instincts control the flight. Strictly speaking, while the body mass was all different, it wasn't too different from flying as a bird.

Celena chuckled with amusement at his comment, tilting her wings to follow his circle, "What can I say? I can't help myself," she called back in reply as she winged her way a bit higher, "You're doing well so far,"

<Hey, I have flown before,> Marco pointed out, as he climbed upwards, wondering if maybe he could try a dive. <Sure, normally I'm a lot smaller and I don't have scales when I go flying, but hey. A wing's a wing.>

"If you hadn't we wouldn't have met today," She replied with a shake of her head as she climbed in turn, "The skill still seems to have transferred well enough so far, planning on something a little more complex I take it?" She comments with an amused glance across to him before casting her gaze to the city below, tracking a good path for a dive right between the buildings below as she waited to see just what he would do.

Marco wasn't going to aim a dive in-between the buildings themselves - he wasn't that much of a risk taker - but he was going to aim to pull up right above them. <You guys can do dives too, right?> he said, finally reaching the top of his climb. Without giving Celena a moment to answer, he folded his wings, plummeting down towards the City below.

"I wouldn't be much of a cavern diver if we couldn't," She called after him even as she tucked her own wings in and dove after him, she always loved the thrill of air whipping past her form, the ground rushing up to meet her. She kept her dive far enough from him so as not to disturb or startle, while aiming for just the right spot between buildings.

Yelling exuberantly in thought speak, Marco plunged downwards. When he was about ten feet above the buildings he extended his wings, pulling sharply out of the dive and gliding over the rooftops.

Celena couldn't help but chuckle at his exuberance, giving something of an exuberant roar even as she dove right between the buildings, pulling up sharply not thirty feet from the streets before arcing her course up and back toward roof level.

Marco snorted. She was still a show off. He banked to the side, spinning once as he climbed up higher in the air. He glided lazily in circles, apparently happy to just fly now rather than trying any fancy tricks.

He looked down on Celena, thinking. This morph was definitely one they could use. Not for infiltration, or anything that needed subtlety - he doubted that he'd ever be able to hide like Celena herself could, not without the years of learning that must have gone into that - but this was a morph that could fight, and fly. Tobias might fight as a red-tailed hawk, but he was always limited to the odd surprise strike and keeping an eye out for the rest of them. Celena had firepower.

If Celena agreed to it, Marco was pretty damn certain the others would want to acquire her as well. But would she go for it?

<Hey, you do know that I'm not the only one that can morph, right?> he said, cautious. He'd be careful about mentioning exactly how many of them there were for now, but he knew Celena would have to at least know about Rachel.

When it came to flying it was hard for her not to show off. Beating her wings and drawing higher back above the rooftops to draw up alongside Marco once more. Easily gliding along with him as she watched him with some interest.

"Indeed, Rachel at the least, though I suspect she is not the only other," she replied with an interested glance across to Marco, she had a fair idea of just why he had brought it up, though she thought to confirm, "What did you have in mind?"

Celena pondered that comment for a moment, turning it over in her head, it was true her form was far from weak, indeed she could hold her own against many opponents. "Such a form would indeed provide an advantage in combat, or indeed aid in the extraction of individuals should it be required,"

"It is a possibility, I would wish to meet those who you propose to acquire my form, I will not have my form misused after all,"

Made sense, although Marco was vaguely amused that Celena had apparently decided that he was trustworthy enough, even after he'd spied on her for a few weeks.

<I'll need to see what the others think,> he said, not willing to answer for the others yet.

She had reason enough to allow Marco the chance to acquire her, she knew well the ways of spying on both ends of it, she didn't hold the spying against him. After all his spying had most likely been at Kang's behest.

"Once you have spoken to them, let me know and we shall see where things go from there," she replied easily, if she could meet and get to know who she was to allow to take on her form she would have a better idea of who might use it to the good of all or misuse it. Marco she could deal with, after all without training in the use of her energies she was confident she could easily restrain him should he attempt to misuse her form.

<Sure,> he said, already starting to think ahead. He was pretty sure they'd be having a meeting soon, to try and get everyone caught up. He could bring up Celena then.

Speaking of the others - it was time he got back home. <Anyway, I gotta head back. Thanks for the scales, Vegas.>

Celena dipped her head at that as she ran a few things through her thoughts, "You are welcome, Marco, I look forward to meeting the others should they agree to meet,"

"Until next time," She called in farewell before tipping her wings and banking away back toward her tower.

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