There was a mighty roar. Furious flames were ejected from the bottom of the combustion engine, scorching the grass underneath it. The frame rattled and shook for a good twenty seconds before, to everyone’s amazement, the thing actually started to rise up off of the ground. Alaric kept his full attention on it, studying the minutia of every moment, trying to mentally capture every detail. It ascended about two hundred feet into the air in about two and a half seconds. It peaked, seemed to...