Now Skyshining had heard about earlier attempts by human inventors to build
Da Vinci OrnithiCopters with windup motors and she'd known they'd failed due to a lack of enough
power in the springs,so she was genuinely curious how Brendan had
pulled it off.
He landed his machine and he and his brother got off
then Brendan lifted the cover to the motor to show the massively
thick windup springs
that drove the thing.
Of course it was beyond his ability in human form to wind the thing up
but the Witch owed him a favour or two and had given
Brendan a potion that turned him into a dragon
under the Full Moon.
As a dragon Brendan
explained
his strength was 99 times greater then as a human prince
which meant that
as a human he could only wind up a quarter horsepower windup motor but
as a dragon he had the big thick arms needed to wind up
a 25 horsepower windup spring.
Then he just waited till the Full Moon was gone
he was human again
and he could fly his machine.