"-uh.... I am curious what you were going to say but we can talk about something else if you'd prefer - sorry I'm bad at thinking of things to talk about right now -"

"Airplanes. Big metal capsules that fly really fast. People hate them because they're more economical if you cram everybody into really small chairs so that's what they do, and also they're loud and smell weird and make people queasy."

"How do they fl-oh- um..... I think I have put together what you were going to say sorry. Um."  No it doesn't help that he's seen her unclothed before! "...airplanes?"

"Sorry! Airplanes. Uh, there's, uh, usually snacks and drinks served on them because they're usually long-ish trips with long-ish periods of time spent at the origin and destination airports on either end. Peanuts are traditional. Pretzels too."

"Um." Oh god she doesn't need to try to recall what exactly it was he saw, why. "Um. People spend lots of time at the airports, too?"

"Yeah, they're very big, thousands of people go through them in a day, there's procedures for large baggage, the airplanes are big and their parking spots have to be spread out, missing a flight is a big deal so you want to show up early."

"How do the people inside them get um. Directed to places to go?"

"There's signs. Because the literacy rate is so good. Kids too young to read would generally be with their families on long trips."

"Signs about what place you are going or signs about um. About what plane you are going to?" Where is her new skirt. She should put that on.

"About, like, go over there if you have luggage, over there if you're traveling with this or that or the other airline - provider of airplane services, lots of them share an airport - and if you're on thus and such a flight to thus and such a city you want to go to gate this-number, and to the left is the one range of numbers and ahead is this other range of numbers and to the right is a third range of numbers, and maybe if the airport is really big you have to take a miniature train to get to another part of it."

"-how do they assign airplanes to gates? And how many gates are there and also how many stops for the miniature trains?"

"I don't know how they assign airplanes to gates. Sometimes they have to change them last minute and I don't know what produces that behavior either. I think there's like ballpark a hundred gates in - maybe not most airports, there are some tiny rural airports - most experienced airport-hours or whatever will take place in airports with ballpark a hundred gates. I think the mini trains are usually like, six to ten stops maybe, they'll stop at various gate-segments and at the parking garage and maybe an attached hotel and the baggage claim I guess?"

"-a hundred... How often do flights leave?"

"I think airports usually have - more than one fewer than ten? - runways, for the planes to take off and land, and that most of them are usually in use for one or the other of those things at least during the day, and each takeoff and landing takes like a minute or two but there's probably a lot of time-consuming safety protocol about making sure they don't get confused such that mutliple planes are trying to be in the same place at the same time."

"How many people get to travel on them?"

"Middle class households can generally go on a couple plane flights a year for recreational purposes without it being too hard on their budget and lots of people go on business trips much more frequently than that if they have jobs that benefit from operating in many cities."

"-oh. That's amazing."

"Yeah. I took a plane to visit my father across the country, and sometimes to get to other cities where I was in demand for a dungeon, though usually my powers aren't in great demand outside driving distance of my home city."

"Did you need to take one of the miniature trains in the process? Or use a parking garage?"

"The Toronto airport doesn't have a little train but I've landed at ones that do. I usually don't take my own vehicle to the airport, I typically get dropped off in a self-driving car. People who drive themselves to the airport and park there usually have something specific going on, like, I could imagine doing it if I were flying with a whole heck of a lot of luggage I didn't want anyone else to handle I guess."

"Oh, it's rather neat how specific the options are for people with different needs."

"The - specific option to park a car at the airport?"

"Yeah - maybe it would seem less impressive if I knew what a parking garage was."

"Concrete structure several stories high to allow more parking spaces on the same land footprint."

"It's really amazing how much effort your world puts into building efficient transportation infrastructure that many people can afford to use."