"If they don't have the shower space to accommodate you, they can tangle with you somewhere else. Maybe even up in the sky and trust you not to drop them," Gideon suggests. Harrow wouldn't even need to trust Gideon since she has wings herself. Gideon takes whatever makeout sessions she can get.

She grins back. "There's been at least three or four different ways to gain wings from trials in the time I've been here, not even counting the Legends and Familiars with wings," Gideon says, "I don't know if that gets us to over fifty percent winged here, but it's pretty common, and it'd definitely a step up from not having wings. As someone who's lived in the winged and wingless categories, it'd feel like I really lost something if I lost mine."

They might even have saved her mother's life. Gideon's not sure that'd be better for the universe writ large, and her mother never loved her... but she saved Gideon from Mercymorn. That's something.