Most people are more comfortable traveling when standing on something. For Chuuya, it's so that he brings something he can weaponize with him if need be. The air is notably not full of solid objects for him.

"Ha," Chuuya snorts. "No, that's a big fat no. It hasn't existed for like a hundred and fifty years. Politics is still a bunch of corrupt shit, but it's a different kind. Power shifts around more."

No wonder she doesn't know what cars are. They hadn't been invented yet.