[In response, Mayuko inhales more deeply, the rattling grows louder. She doesn't have a thousand years to wait on an enchanted pearl, so she has to make do with good old-fashioned air-sacs to give her added buoyancy. They shows as a slight bulge to her torso, nothing that would interfere with wingbeats.

She picks a direction, settles back on her haunches, then pushes off into a tightly-spiraled ascent.]