Smirking the cat shifted and started tugging on one of the straps and pulled an orb down to his level, toying with it and bouncing it in his grasp for a moment. "A shame really, that all that goes up must come down. A lovely toy that served such a short purpose and now gets ruptured and rent into dozens of pieces." Letting his claw slide out, he looks up into the balloon for a moment more before ending it.

One experience in my life I've wanted to try is cluster ballooning (more info at this old site http://www.clusterballoon.org/) because it looks so fun to float along there in the sky held aloft by glorified string and party balloons (glorified, cloudbuster and weather balloons pop just as easy as normal ones). It seems like a heavenly experience to slide along in silence at altitude and take in the view. I'll stop re-describing the same fantasy now. The only downsides for it is the waste of helium, IMO; and the fact that the only efficient way to get down (unlike in the picture the balloons aren't normally knotted like a party balloon, but are twisted up, secured to a line, the twist is folded in half at the line, and then the neck is secured up in more line and tape) is to either cut the balloons free, or pop them. Bad enough there's gonna be bits falling to the ground, might as well try to keep as many of them as I can and properly put away the trash.