[Since she's hovering on her own, he lets his hand drop away. At least she didn't plummet to the ground. In any case, he's able to push that little episode out of mind a bit more easily than her since she's asking him a question, and since he usually takes pride in explaining game mechanics, it's a good distraction from thinking about how close they were just a few moments before.]

Mhhh, it's sort of like using muscles that you don't even have. [That sounds kind of weird, so he shrugs a bit and points over his shoulder at his wings.]

The best way to describe it is... if you had wings in real life, you'd have muscles back there that moved them, right? So you sort of have to pretend you have those muscles and then... just use them. Hahhh, maybe it's more difficult than it sounds.