"Can you speak, when shifting?" asked as they flew straight up.. above the clouds.. he didn't go fast so she didn't fall off.
"You know.. Harpies are real?" he smiled..
"How shift?" he asked. 

When they got to the clouds he laid there, it looked like hovering but he was slowly falling.. it'd take ages for him to go below the clouds though..
gravity on earth.. is less than it is on his home planet.. so his dad taught him how to fly with weights on, it was torture.. in a good way.