[It's probably really no shock that Knives' favored style of flight mostly involves as little effort as he can possibly put into it. Hawks managed, and so did he; he'll leave the aerobatics to Vash. If his brother fell out of the sky, or something from the ground decided to try to lay an ambush, he'd be waiting.
He didn't trust any of these people. Least of all the blackwings. It's just a matter of time before --
Suddenly being buffeted by an unexpected downburst nearly smacks him right into the trees he was carefully cruising over; trying that on someone not quite as used to flight probably would have ended with tree branches everywhere, but Knives is pretty good at recovery. Even then it takes a sudden flurry of wingbeats and actually twisting to brace bare feet against a reaching branch and shoving away to prevent him from eating leaves outright.
A few leaves scatter in his wake, and a single puff of shaken-loose white down as he surges back upward, visibly startled and very obviously looking for where sudden attack had come from. It could be enemies, he knew there'd be trouble sooner or later..!!
Except there aren't any. Just Vash above, and nobody else in range. Which meant that.. ... ...
...That he better retaliate. Knives is nowhere as certain of the other gifts Hyt's given him, they were foreign and a little peculiar, but illusions aren't always difficult to try. His aren't perfect, yet. Which explains why there's no sound when what looks like a cross between a sandworm and a dragon explodes upwards from the trees, jaws gaping, to try to snap Vash out of the air. It's just a lightshow, at its base, completely harmless, and if Vash is quick on paying attention, no leaves at all are disturbed in its massive wake.
Being eaten by a monster that isn't there obviously won't do much either.]
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He didn't trust any of these people. Least of all the blackwings. It's just a matter of time before --
Suddenly being buffeted by an unexpected downburst nearly smacks him right into the trees he was carefully cruising over; trying that on someone not quite as used to flight probably would have ended with tree branches everywhere, but Knives is pretty good at recovery. Even then it takes a sudden flurry of wingbeats and actually twisting to brace bare feet against a reaching branch and shoving away to prevent him from eating leaves outright.
A few leaves scatter in his wake, and a single puff of shaken-loose white down as he surges back upward, visibly startled and very obviously looking for where sudden attack had come from. It could be enemies, he knew there'd be trouble sooner or later..!!
Except there aren't any. Just Vash above, and nobody else in range. Which meant that.. ... ...
...That he better retaliate. Knives is nowhere as certain of the other gifts Hyt's given him, they were foreign and a little peculiar, but illusions aren't always difficult to try. His aren't perfect, yet. Which explains why there's no sound when what looks like a cross between a sandworm and a dragon explodes upwards from the trees, jaws gaping, to try to snap Vash out of the air. It's just a lightshow, at its base, completely harmless, and if Vash is quick on paying attention, no leaves at all are disturbed in its massive wake.
Being eaten by a monster that isn't there obviously won't do much either.]