Apollo got himself to stop laughing and then stared at Elaine, now fully expressionless. He studied her glare, the way she was upset at him. He blinked slowly before talking.

His voice held no emotion when he asked, "Do you really want me to leave? Don't you want daydreams?"

He shifted on the railing, his midnight wings spreading out in preparation to leave.

"Or were you talking out of panic and didn't think your thoughts through? Really, I wouldn't have done that if I wasn't sure Frances would be safe. He just seemed bored, I thought it would be a good idea."

Apollo shrugged.

"But sure, I can leave if you really want me to."

Apollo smiled.

"You really care about him. I understand. I am sorry for scaring you both."

His voice is still strangely showing no emotion, but his smile was nice.

Now Apollo was widely grinning, his voice back to its regular lazy joking.

"Huuuh? But what if I carried you instead?"

He leaned forward a bit on the railing, his grinning even larger as his eyes glinted with mischievousness.

"Then what would you do, Princess? Hmmm?"

Apollo noticed Frances left.

"Awwww! You agree that I'm pretty!"

Apollo slowly moved off the railing to the balcony ground.

"Are you scared of my awesomeness?" he taunted.

"Well, let's find out if you're a liar, Princess!"

How did he move so quickly behind Elaine? Like he did with Frances, Apollo lifted up Elaine into his arms. He was quick and strong enough to safely  carry her. He immediately started to prepare his wings for take-off, stretching them out.

"Ready?"

Apollo's strong, so Elaine's attempt is unsuccessful. 

"One... two... three!"

Apollo shot up into the air with Elaine in his arms.

Apollo continued flying upwards until they were high up into the sky.

"Look how beautiful the view is!" Apollo grinned.

"Isn't it awesome? Just like me!" Apollo laughed. He started flying around, kind of just zooming now without much consideration of how Elaine felt about going fast through the sky.

"I'm not even going my fastest speed!" Apollo grinned, dipping and rising through the air.

"Stop squeezin' me so much before you choke me. We wouldn't want to fall from this height, right? Hmm... It feels so good up here! The air is just right!"

He was talking to himself on the last part.

"Okay, okay, Princess. I'll slow down."

He did in fact slow down, but only a little.

"Have you ever flown like this before?"

Apollo kind of laughed and said, "You really never knew flying is possible?"

"Well, I guess I'm not human," Apollo shrugged, yawning a bit. "But I'm sure there's spells and magic that a human could use to fly. I mean, anything is possible!"

"Magic is so beautiful," Apollo said. "It's amazing what people can do with it now-a-days! You can even use it for just entertainment instead of fighting! It's awesome!"

"Hm? Probably! I'm not the greatest teacher or caster, but I'm sure that I, the amazing Apollo, can teach you some magics!"

They're heading back to the balcony now.

Apollo shrugged.

"I wouldn't know if any of my friends are the greatest, but I have some that are better than me at it. But it also depends on the magic you want to learn, I guess."

He landed on the balcony softly, setting Elaine down onto her feet.