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"Flying mounts? Well... they've got a mean jump on them but I don't know about that. Hmmm..."

The Ranger rubs her temples as she considers it further.

"They can just about stop themselves from falling if they flap hard enough, but it's tiring and looks ridiculous so they need a good incentive before they'll bother. Only times I've seen them try is if they're spooked or want to avoid falling in something.
They barely get any appreciable lift or speed out of it though and I think that distresses them given how fast they are on land. That's without a passenger too.

I don't know, if a magazine tells you it's true it probably is, I imagine there's some way you could train more endurance, but personally I wouldn't bother.
Plenty of bigger birds that like flying more and are better at it, if that's what you're after, whereas on land you'd be hard pressed to find something faster than one of these, isn't that right?"

She scratches the back of the head not currently occupied with anything else and it caws appreciatively.

"You could probably train one to swim you across lakes too but that doesn't mean it'd be a good idea."

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The other Ranger, the one addressed by Lucian, seems equally happy to chat while on the job, although at least in this case he's being given a chance to dispense work-relevant advice.

"Haven't heard of anything particularly unusual today, everything should be fine if you stick to the path.
Near the road things generally tend to be pretty much safe, us rangers are mostly here on call to help people who need to go off-road for their work, it doesn't need a lot of patrolling.
If you don't wander off you should be perfectly safe, and if you do then at least make sure you don't go far enough that it gets out of sight. Real easy to get turned around out there, and there's no signposts.

You might find a few curious wild pokemon every so often once you get far from civilisation but it shouldn't be anything you can't handle. We get a pilgrimage group like you ever couple of months, and almost all of them come back alive!"

He laughs loudly.

"That was a joke. The nasty ones stay in the deep desert, little ones you get over here tend to be more frightened of you than you are them. You won't have any trouble."