Icarus Takes Tragic Flight

New innovations and inventions can be quite dangerous when in the testing phases. Icarus, son to Daedalus, died earlier this week.

His father had placed a row of feathers in ascending order; these were bound together in the middle with flaxen thread and then joined at the qullis with molded wax. He bent them just a bit, so they resembled bird's wings.

Once the wings were complete, Daedalus instructed his son to fly with the innovation, but not to fly too low or too high. Either the wings would be weighed down with moisture or consumed by flames; he was to keep in the middle of the atmosphere.

"I was dampened by tears and my hands were trembling. I was so nervous for my son. I should have known better," Daedalus told the Colloquium Crier.

Icarus flew too close to the sun's consuming rays, softening the frgrant wax that bound his wings until they melted. Icarus fell to his death into the deep blue sea.

Prayers and sympathies are appreciated for Daedalus at this tragic time.

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