IN> Rites in Heaven: The Roller Coaster

[James Walker]

Rite: Spend two hours meditating on a moving roller coaster – it can stop to let others off and on, but the angel has to ride it through.

Windies have always appreciated any way that allows them to move faster through the Canopy that is Janus’ Cathedral. Rope bridges and flying foxes evolved into a linked transport system, which has since grown more and more complicated. Janus is grateful to Novalis for the mighty trees that support his realm, so the network goes around trees rather than through them; it constantly changes height depending on the growth of the canopy – jinks and turns as Tethers are formed or move. 
For centuries now, The Canopy has been linked both internally and with neighbouring cathedrals by an organically developed Roller Coaster.

Because of this patchwork origin, the Roller Coaster changes wildly along its’ route. Visitors embarking at the Halls of Progress are reassured by the maglev system and countless safety precautions. They are less impressed with clattering over wooden boards near The Grove, skidding over ice near the Grotto, plunging through the tunnels of David’s caverns, much less with traveling the imaginative solutions that Eli’s angels have found to connect these different systems. All are grateful that souls cannot wet themselves should they travel as far the Volcano – where support depends on the Leidenfrost effect while traveling over lava flows.

Because the system is constantly changing, guessing how long it will take to reach the desired destination is haphazard, at best. Spending two hours meditating on the roller coast could take an angel *anywhere* - Windies consider this a bonus.

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