[@Harlequ]

Nice post! But... there's just a slight issue.

You see, Hot Air Balloons in this world are far from common. In fact, it is very likely that the husband Boris threw out of the Balloon was an inventor who built the Hot Air Balloon himself (likely not the person who invented the whole concept of them, but just someone copying it to test it and stuff). Therefore it is highly unlikely that anyone would know how one such Balloon worked. This leads me to my question: How does Ilyssa know how to operate the Hot Air Balloon so skilfully?