nikolas vaisey doesn't need a broom to fly (besserwisser) wrote in wished,
Nikolas nodded. "Probably depends on the animal you turn into. But in any case it'd be weird to have all your bones set up differently. Human brain, though, so I don't know how that would come up against any new instincts."
This had been something that Nikolas had been giving a lot of thought to. How much control would he have over himself when he eventually did change? If he did take a form similar to his patronus, and did become a bird, would he just be able to fly? Maybe he'd have to learn it. Somehow the idea of crashing into a wall wasn't very appealing.
"It's kind of hard to believe we've only got a couple of months left, now. In September I thought this year was going to drag. I guess with everything happening I've lost track of things."
There were some points when Nikolas was surprised he hadn't gone insane, between the arranged marriage, and then being made captain, and Lucy, and the decrees, and now these lessons. Last year he wouldn't have thought he'd be trying to handle all of these things at once, or that any of them would even be an issue.