But if they could just do anything they wanted, why even bother with airships? They could just flap their arms and fly on their own! I know I would if I could.

[He plays with the curl of hair on his cheek, looking thoughtful.]

Now that I think about it... What makes magic so different from science, anyway? I mean, people used to explain away lots of natural phenomena as magical because they didn't have enough knowledge to understand the laws of physics. Who's to say magic doesn't have a perfectly logical cause and we just don't know it yet?