Bella finds a spell to fix her hair. She starts looking for another spell that will divert the intense wind generated when Feral flies top-speed. If it just works well enough to let her keep her eyes open, that will do, but ideally she'd like to be able to perch on him and read a book; then they could potentially go very long distances on Dementor-hunts, on weekends. Mith is helping her look through indices for candidate spells. (She is definitely specializing from magical theory into spell development, when she can.)

Author: occluminous	Bella finds a spell to fix her hair. She starts looking for another spell that will divert the intense wind generated when Feral flies top-speed. If it just works well enough to let her keep her eyes open, that will do, but ideally she'd like to be able to perch on him and read a book; then they could potentially go very long distances on Dementor-hunts, on weekends. Mith is helping her look through indices for candidate spells. (She is definitely specializing from magical theory into spell development, when she can.)
Author: pythbox	Suddenly, Feral!
Author: occluminous	Bella waves. "Did you talk to Sherlock?"
Author: pythbox	"Yeah," says Feral. "He wasn't interested." He shrugs. "Whatcha doing?"
Author: occluminous	"Trying to see if there's a way to keep the wind off me while we fly."
Author: pythbox	"Ooh. Got anything yet?"
Author: occluminous	"I might be able to get the Wind-Manipulation Charm to do it if I practiced a lot, but it's not really what it was designed for and it might make it hard for you to steer, plus I'd have to be controlling it continuously."
Author: pythbox	"Huh," says Feral. "A shield or whatever won't do it? Guess not."
Author: occluminous	"Defensive shields? They're hard to move along with you and they're also not really for wind, they're for blocking spells and projectiles."
Author: pythbox	"Hence the 'or whatever'," says Feral.
Author: occluminous	"I haven't thought of a good whatever, yet. You can help look if you want."
Author: pythbox	"Sure!" says Feral.
Author: occluminous	She hands him a book she was about to go through the index of and continues scanning the shelves herself.
Author: pythbox	Feral dives in.
Author: occluminous	Eventually Bella finds a spell that is cast on the actual windshields of wizarding vehicles. "This one needs a physical object to be cast on," she says, showing him the page, "but I think it can extend past the dimensions of the object - there would just have to be something on you and in front of me that I could cast it on. You could wear a little hat."
Author: pythbox	"I will totally wear a little hat," snorts Feral.
Author: occluminous	"It'll have to stay on you by itself, since it'll be the windshield, not protected by it. But it can have a string on it or something."
Author: pythbox	"Sure," says Feral. "A party hat."
Author: occluminous	"Thestral in a party hat hunting Dementors," giggles Bella.
Author: pythbox	Feral cracks up and hugs her.
Author: occluminous	Hugs!
Author: pythbox	"We're awesome," giggles Feral.
Author: occluminous	"Yes," Bella agrees. "We are."
Author: pythbox	He beams and hugs her some more.