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[alittleblackmagic]

[voice]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I knew it!  I knew I was incredible!  I can fly!  I can fly! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[action]
[Well that was disturbing.  Someone stop Palom before he leaps off the top of the apartment buildings.  Luckily, he seems to be taking some time looking extraordinarily constipated intense as he tries to summon up the gigantic storms he remembers conjuring to, uh, save his life from a planet filled with... burning oil?  Whatever.  The point was, he could fly!

No really someone stop him he's about to jump.]

Aero!  Aero...ga!  Aeroraga!  AERORAROGA!!! Why isn't this working?!

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[not_good_not_wicked]

[Not saving, just watching. After all it's not like flying is THAT hard. He probably can do it.]

[alittleblackmagic]

[He totally can. Just watch. Palom throws caution to the winds and jumps up into the air a little bit. ...And falls down in the air a lot. No problem he'll start hovering any second.

...
...
...

Any moment now...]

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Any moment now...

...]

Wuh-oh.

[Looks like he's doesn't ACTUALLY know how to fly. Marisa zooms down on her broomstick to catch Palom before he hits the ground.]

[alittleblackmagic]

AAAAAAAAAAEEEEEERRROOOOOoooooooooooooooooo...........

[Fwumph. Just in the nick of time! Probably. Maybe. Despite the fact that he should probably be dead anyway, Palom just looks vaguely dazed.]

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Palom finds himself hanging a few feet over the ground from someone grabbing the back of his shirt]

You got some kinda death wish, kid?

[alittleblackmagic]

[gasp gasp pant pant]

Y-You just interrupted me! I almost had it!

[not_good_not_wicked]

No you didn't, you were about to turn into a pancake on the street.

[alittleblackmagic]

Really? Is that a new spell?! To save myself, right? Gosh, I really am good!

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Drop]

If you really want to test flying spells by jumping offa buildings, who am I to stop you?

can't remember if they know each other's names so I'M WINGIN' IT

[gogoghostpowers]

[Well that post wasn't worrying at all. It left Danny unsettled and he hoped the kid wouldn't try anything crazy.

Not even five minutes later, though, he hears someone screaming from the...top of the building?

This can't end well.

Danny flies up to face Palom's level, arms crossed, feet hanging just beyond the edge of the building.]

What are you doing, Palom.

[alittleblackmagic]

Flying! Shhhhh! You're ruining my concentration! Stop showing off.

[gogoghostpowers]

[Eyebrows just.

sloooooooooowly

raise.]

[alittleblackmagic]

STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT! I flew! I remember it as clear as day!

[gogoghostpowers]

So? I'm not saying you didn't! I'm just here to watch.

[And by 'watch' he means 'catch him when he drops to the ground like a bowling ball.]

[alittleblackmagic]

I will! Just watch!

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...
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Gonna do it now! ...OK. Are you watching?! I'm gonna fly! Make sure you don't miss it! I'm only going to do it once! Hnnnnngh. OK, here I goooooooooooooooo....

[Whoops there he goes.]

[gogoghostpowers]

[There he goes.

Danny just lets him fall for a little while.]

[alittleblackmagic]

[Things are going splendidly. Even birds dove first to catch air currents and... things like that. Right? Whatever, he didn't care about biology.

Look he's totally flying he's just flying down ok??]

[all_onis_are_true]

Palom, wait, stop! Everybody's memories are --

*Craaaaaaap. Okay, calm down Hiroshi. If I were a little kid with a massive ego who thought he could fly, I'd be --

SHIT.

He bolts up the stairs to the roof of the hotel.*

PALOM! WAIT A SECOND!

[alittleblackmagic]

AERORARIRUREROGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....

[Oops. That there's a small child plummeting to his death.]

[all_onis_are_true]

PALOOOOM!

*He runs forward, but the kid's already jumping. There's no way he can make it in time, which doesn't stop him from surging forward to try to grab his cape.*

[alittleblackmagic]

[No Hiroshi don't tear the beautiful cape!! If there's no way he can make it in time, he at least makes a valiant effort anyway but the red cloth sails just past his grasp.]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[Is this the first real death in Sirocco?!?
....Looks like dead people vanish upon death. Palom disappears in a flash of light as he falls.]

[all_onis_are_true]

A... a...

*Hiroshi stares over the edge of the building, shell-shocked. No way... there's no way he could've... It's Palom, right? Guys like that don't just... DIE!*

[alittleblackmagic]

[Let us take a moment to mourn.
Dearly beloved we are gathered here today in memory o -- ]

Ow!

[A sopping wet Palom promptly falls two feet from the sky and bounces on top of Hiroshi.]

[all_onis_are_true]

*WHUMP*

tHe sKY iS fALliNg...

[alittleblackmagic]

[bounce bounce bounce.

Palom lies on the ground and stares up at the sky for a few moments.]

This is so unfair......