"They haven't worked since I woke up and got the Legion recruiting pitch. I didn't lose my wings or anything--" she pointed down at her feet, where the standard-issue boots had some interesting modifications to allow her little white Mercury wings to stick out "--so I think maybe the laws of physics in this universe just aren't compatible with however my mutation works."

She looked around at the rolling candy hills and the not-at-all-burbling syrup brook that could not accurately be described as "flowing" nearby, then up at the candy mountain in the middle distance. "Least of my worries right now, but man, you don't realize how convenient flying is until you suddenly can't anymore."