[ Jen isn't much of an artist, but she'd made a square lantern with pictures of birds on it, one on each side. One bird was red, another was gold, the third was red and gold, and the fourth was grey, but it wore a crown on its little bird head. She isn't sure why she decided to decorate her lantern with the birds from Sir Brennan's dream, but it felt right for some reason.

Down at the beach, she gets ready to release her lantern into the sky, when someone wonders how they'll float. ]

Well, it's like a hot air balloon, just smaller. You light a candle, and the hot air inside the lantern becomes less dense than the cold air around it, so it floats.

[ She tucks a strand of hair behind her ear, shrugging. ] It's just physics.