(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/23/2011 4:20 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
> Although Fava dies in the snow, Jahlee travels with the Rajan on 
> horseback through the winter. There are a lot of problems technically 
> with flying high enough by flapping your wings to leave the 
> gravitational pull of one planet to enter another.**

That's the biggest, probably. They'd need to be very strong and very 
light with a huge surface area. They could use some other wind---like a 
solar wind---for lift once they reach that point.
> But then there are technical problems with two planets regularly 
> getting as close to each other as Green and Blue do.
>
> Considering how hard hardy the inhumi are understood to be, the 
> surprising thing to me is that Fava died at all.
>
> Jahlee speaks with great reverence for the risks her mom took to 
> obtain a soul for her. Of course, she might ACTUALLY have been 
> referring to her hopping a lander.
>
> **The reason things burn up when they hit the atmosphere is because 
> they have to be traveling very fast to be in ORBIT. Inhumi don't care 
> about being in orbit. They just fall. So they would not burn up in the 
> atmosphere.
>

Especially assuming they have wings at that point.