The answer's a lighter one than Shouyou would've expected, but he supposes that just means Espio's good at rolling with what he's been dealt.

"Mmm, I guess it'd be pretty hard if you had to learn from scratch like this so suddenly," he muses, eyeing the wings. They look cool, there's no doubt about it, even if the reality of flying seems much more complicated than he'd first thought. "If it were me, I'd totally crash into everything at the beginning."

Once the words are out of his mouth, it takes Shouyou a second to connect the dots, comprehension lighting up his eyes. "Oh! That's where you got the bruises from, isn't it? You were testing them out."