"Airplanes?"

... It took him a moment to attempt to piece together the possible meanings of the word.

"A war fought from the sky?"

There had been attempts to get man into the air since well before Algren's time, but sustained flight was, alas, still but a dream. The notion of fighting a battle as a bird might very nearly appealed to him. Nearly.

He trusted a horse far more, he decided.

[OOC: Night!]