"It looks like we're all going to die, so why are you talking so casually about it? Oh, I see. Is it because you’re going to be okay with wings?"7

"There isn’t always a causal relationship with wings and flying in the sky.”0

"What do you mean?"0

"And," Mazdari said, "I only said we were crashing, not that we were all going to die."0

Ramin Solost Muel was relieved on the inside.0

Mazdari was both a great Wizard and an apostle, so it was obvious that he wouldn't leave everyone in the Thunderstrider to die.0

"So, there's a way out after all?"0

Mazdari shook his head and replied, "A way out? I don't have any plans to intervene personally."0

"What?"0

"The Thunderstrider is an airship originally constructed to withstand even the worst-case scenario of the envelope being in complete destruction and crashing. We can't avoid the fall itself, but we can change the hard landing into a soft one."2

At those words, Ramin checked to see what the busy soldiers were doing. They were using levers to turn the direction of the thrusters attached to both sides of the helical wings, moving them from facing forward to facing up and down so that they would somehow lift the airship.0

Mazdari continued to say, "The envelope isn't completely...4