Who: Jake and Banshee and Open When: Monday morning Where: Somewhere in the city What: Flying in the dark (trying to find the Door building)
Banshee was not a happy ikran. He let his displeasure be known as he flew low in the air, going as slow as he could and screeching as he tried to see something other than bright flashes in the sky and the dull glow from behind where his Na'vi was carrying a small light as well. His Jake was bonded with him and trying to keep him calm (the bright flashes were rawm, Jake told him, but he could hear the other word for it in Jake's mind as well, the "Lightning") but Banshee knew they were both worried.
There were no lights in the city that Jake could see, for all that it was morning and the sun should have been well on its way to rising by now. His light didn't do much but show what was immediately around them, and it was only now starting to show buildings instead of forest canopy, so he knew there wasn't too much more to go, but he also knew that crashing into buildings would hurt a fuckload more than crashing into trees. "Mawey, ma Banshee, mawey," he murmured, and got a screech in reply.
Buildings were not nearly as familiar when they were pitch black, he observed, banking sharply to the right when a fairly tall building appeared, seemingly out of nowhere. "Banshee, circle round and land on that building, would you?" he asked, and did his best to guide the ikran up against the building. There was a bit of scrabbling, but then they were hanging off the office block. The windowledges were spaced out enough that Banshee could hold on easily, so Jake reasoned that he'd be able to climb down with a minimum of fucking up. He explained his plan to Banshee who also decided to climb down - he didn't want to be stuck on a building with no hope of getting found until the sun came back. Ground walking was awkward but his Jake had explained what would happen if he'd flown into a building in the dark. Awkward was much better than broken wings.
Jake checked the street names at every junction they got to, and quickly realized where they were. Banshee was happy to find the park by the hospital since he knew the area very well without needing to see it, and that meant Jake could run the rest of the way to the doors building. Once he'd checked that Tommy and Izzy were okay, he'd go back and get Banshee, and then somehow get out to the house and check on everyone else.