#3 The Encounter:
Jake had a peregrine falcon morph we’d used before. Marco and Cassie had morphed ospreys. Rachel had been a bald eagle. So we all should have been able to fly up to the mountains.
But there are millions of bird-watchers in this country. They’re very cool people because they never hurt a bird. They don’t hunt. They just get pleasure out of watching birds fly or nest.
Bird-watchers would think it was very, very weird if they saw a red-tail hawk, a bald eagle, a falcon, and two ospreys all flying together as if they were on a mission. And some of those gentle bird-watchers might be not-so-gentle Controllers.
“Bird-watchers!” Marco snorted as he tramped over the carpet of pine needles deeper into the woods. “We could fly, but no. No, we have to walk. Twenty miles, probably!”I am begging these children to acquire Canadian geese
Good News! They will think of it eventually. Well. Ducks. But close enough
Bad News! It’s not until past Book #50.
Note for all fix-it-fic authors: Get these kids a goose morph immediately. Geese are fearsome in battle and capable long-distance formation fliers that no one will think twice about seeing.