He grinned slightly, his face probably reddened more at her ego. He looked at his hands. "Well I can't fix it now. And I like it." He narrowed his eyes as he flipped his hands over ans gazed at them. He put a leg on the other's knee, which rested on Zeus' wing. "Thanks, I love your swirls. You have a bit more talent with these paints than I do." He said sheepishly.

"I think it looks great." She made eye contact and held his stare for a few moments, tilting her head slightly at him. "Its really not that great- I- its just some swirls, really-" She cleared her throat and glanced away nervously, reddening herself. "Come here, ill show you." She had Castor move close enough for her to touch Ethan. She dragged a finger down his forearm gently, which still had some wet paint. She reached up and drew a simple red swirl down the side of his neck, mirroring it on his other side before grinning up at him tentatively.

He smiled, seeing her red up, stuttering a little. Zeus scooted slightly closer to her. He narrowed his eyes, he couldn't see it but he felt it and it was just a little, ticklish. He giggled a little. "It feels cool even though I can't see it." he said with a smile. He smiled again, looking at her face with a slight head tilt and a soft expression. Then everyone around looked like they were getting ready to move. He looked up, people were getting ready to lift off. He flipped his leg back the right way. "It looks like time to go."

She blinked and shook her head. "Yeah- right- of course-" She sat back correctly on Castor, moving him away and blinking a few times before glanicng over at him. "Ready to eat my dust?" She grinned, stroking Castor's neck.

He giggled. "I doubt I will, because you'll be eating mine." He grinned right bacck at her slyly. As he leaned closer to Zeus in preparation. The even mumbling of the crowd died out slowly. He watched for the flare, it shot into the sky and they were off. Zeus shot to the sky, staying low so he could see the markers in the ground, dodging trees. He was below most of the other flyers, Iph was flying beside and Benji above.

"Yeah right!" Castor shot off the pad, sticking to a low altitude, just above the tops of the trees, Asta leaning low over his neck. She was toward the front of the pack as far as she could tell, Castor's wings giving them an advantage in speed. It wouldve made dodging trees insanely hard, though, so she kept him just above them.

Ethan and Rome darted off to a side, following a new path squirming through treetops. Zeus' wings would be a hazard had they not been so used to this kind of thing, they did this for fun. In the rain, the dark. He shot over a tree and glanced around, Benji was right behind them. The cabin should be just ahead..

She stayed on her path, pulling to the head of the pack now that the other three leaders had switched paths. She ushered Castor on as Leon caught up to her tail. She flew Castor lower, weaving him through the spacing trees. She looked around for the cabin, squinting through the trees.

Within the next 30 seconds they came upon the cabin, they swooped over it and banked hard back into the trees till they didn't see any others above and popped through the canopy. Benji was at Zeus' tail, others were at their tails and sprawled out behind them and beside them.

Castor zipped out of the trees and took a hard bank around it, flapping his wings visciously to compensate for their speed. They clipped the tops of the trees as they flew over it, Castor speeding up to even out with Zeus, flying above him.