Ugh, seeing an accident like that... ow. I think the first time I saw people go real-time was watching the towers fall live on 9/11. I was recuperating at my folk's place from an emergency root canal and I was too sick and in pain to get up and change the channel from the scenes of the smouldering towers. And then they fell down. And people fell out the windows. And then they replayed it over... and over... I'm still in pain from that one, when I bother to think about it.

I've no idea how thestrals would 'like' legbands, streamers, or any of that stuff - might be interesting to see what they do about it. :D I hate to think what would happen if a thestral suddenly decided it didn't want a rider any more. It's bad enough when a terrestrial horse decides to dump a rider. A bucking-fit at 1000 feet would be pretty 'interesting'.

Will probably do the coloring of the art tomorrow after I've had sleep - my typos mean it's time to get to bed. :)