"Shorter than most, longer than I'd like," Wash answered ambiguously with a hint of bitterness.
Wash took a moment to take off letting them rise into the air before gunning it through the sky like a bird zooming around in its cage just to feel enough wind to make it feel like it was free.
He pulled up and up and up into the pristine blue sky with white fluffy clouds crawling lazily around in a perfect temperate climate. The Wall was a place he'd become accustomed to since he'd first discovered it. It surrounded the City's limits and he often found himself hanging around the top watching the forest for inordinate amounts of time whether he was testing Tony's suit or in his shuttle.
"I know what your thinking," he said as the shuttle climbed the awesome height of the Wall, "they could have at least been a little more subtle than literally keeping everyone behind a wall."
The bricks passed by in visibly from Leto's side window. They were completely perpendicular to the horizon line, headed straight up. It could be very disorienting to know your position but not feel as if you were in that position. Thanks to the artificial gravity there wasn't the same pressure as there would have been in an airplane.
As they finally came to the top alarms started to blare. Wash made a sharp correction before they hit the top invisible barrier. They were suddenly horizontal to the ground.
"Sorry. Proximity alarms," and flipped some switches to stop the noise. "Never hit the gorram thing, but there's some sort of barrier up there I can't see, but the ship can. This is as far as we can go. And I don't recommend going much further unless you want to be a nice puddle on the ground somewhere. I, myself, prefer a more solid nature."
He gestured toward the trees seen just over the behemoth of a wall.
"To your left, a creepy forest. No, seriously, don't look at it too long. It's...just...weird," he said and shivered.
He suddenly huffed.
"What are those, implants or something?" he asked gesturing toward the other man's eyes.