FLIGHT OF FANCY

A day or so back as I stood dreaming on the roof of the guild hall.
I spotted far off in the distance something swooping and diving on the breeze. Eventually it turned towards me and as it came closer I saw that it was a young Female. She ;landed and we exchanged pleasantries. I asked her about the strange contraption which she was using to glide above the city. She told me it was a new invention and that she was trying it out just for fun. I mentioned that I should very much like to write about it in the VV and that if she cared to send me a note of her experiences then this is what I would do. This is what she had to say.

Mariella Del Sogno's Guide to Gliding in Venexia.

After a short while spent adjusting the hand bar and the foot pegs of her new Leonard Glider she was ready to go.
Mariella closed here eyes and leap off the highest tower in Venexia.
What started as a gasp soon became a little giggling as she honed in on the nearest scent of live blood, the first point of her little game of flight! 
She swooped down fast towards her first victim of whim. The strong gust of air created by the wings carried off the lady's hat into the canal which made her laugh and lose control for a moment.
 Adjusting her weight she found she could catch the little pockets of air rising from the ground, and so she soared higher and higher up into the sky towards the Basilica.  A sister of the Daemonicans  standing on the Balcony shock her fists at her! Ha, this is fun she though.

Turning away from the majestic structure, she tried to get as close as she could over the roofs of the Vordensian ship which would come up next, she was hoping to catch a glimpse of the most fearsome of the lot, known to be crazy enough to kill their own kind, she snarled and hissed angrily at the thought of these mad creatures and their tyranny!

She then mustered up all her strength to turn a sharp corner as she reach the end of a row of houses, and dived down towards the bay just so she could try to fly as low as she could.
She took the glide under the two drawbridges without diving hitting the water! 
Satisfied with that challenge, she circled over the private houses and then flew towards her favourite part of Venexia.  The sound of wind resonated through the pantheon dome of the building like a choir accompanying the musicians playing on stage.  She smiled again for the teatro was her home.

When the dust devils are hiding, it gets tricky to spot rising air from the ground, but she devised a method by chance when the end of her Leonardo Wings slide against one of the tall red flag poles at a slight angle. This propelled her upwards as she turned the corner towards the Bordello gliding over the roof just an inch safe of a crash! 
She would smiled to herself at the sight of the half naked Females and the one male buried beneath them....the cold wind she brought to them would do nothing to interrupt their passion!

Perhaps she thought, one day, another would be brave enough to fly with her, to race pass the sharp buttress that line the buildings, to manipulate the currents of unpredictable air bloeing in form the lagoon, and to enjoy the brief moment of carefree exhilarating fun, she shouted out to everyone and no one  "Let your dreams take flight!"