And you definitely won't be the last that needs to learn how to fly. [He adds, to take the sting off the idea of crashing.] I'm a little jealous I had to learn the hard way.

[Wait. Should he warn him? If it were anyone else he wouldn't.]

I'm not sure that forest has them but...watch out for birds and bats. They don't react well to being startled.

Then again a person might be less surprising than a Lion in the sky. Who knows. [Birds are assholes.]