<strong>Joint Post: Mistwind and Goldheart</strong><br/><br/>While it was Mistwind's first experience flying on a strix, it was NOT her first experience flying at all, having ridden in a Cloud Chariot at the behest of other professors at the Academy during her early years.  She grinned widely even against the wind, not even minding that poor Starfall was crushing her waist.  As they swooped in, out of sheer impulse, she joined in the warcry raised by the other girls.  She saw Whispers a moment before the other girl reached up to grab her, and quickly extricated herself from Starfall's grasp, letting out a joyful squeal as she was tossed into Crimson's arms, giggling like a mad person.<br/><br/>Goldheart, on the other hand, spun the staff around in her hand twice, thumping it hard on the ground as she watched the flight of the soaring strix, her free hand shading her eyes.  "That... was too easy.  What in the name of all Creation was an ata beast doing..."  Shaking her head, she dropped her hand, advancing slowly on the downed creature, staff held out in a cross-body grip in both hands in case it had only been feigning death, intent on examining it for some sort of token or sign or mark that would give them some clue as to how it got here, and how it came by Linowan horses and riders.