Suguru listened almost pityingly to the girl's explanation of human abilities. They sounded about as weak and helpless as they looked... But they<span style="font-style: italic">were</span>smart. "Oh, uh, yeah. I can do that," the boy responded at the girl's proposal. He stood up and stepped back a little then spread out his wings. In a moment he was in the air, ascending slowly in case there was an invisible ceiling in the way. (Devians weren't birds; they couldn't glide in the air when they flew. No, they were much to heavy when that. The constant flapping caused a rising and dipping pattern more similar to a bat.)<br/><br/>When the boy's hand (which had been feeling the wall as he rose) reached air, he concluded that they could exit the platform from above. "It stops about here," he called down. The wall rose about nine feet.