Holmes smirked. "The point of an efficient flying device wouldn't be looks. It would be the ability to fly. If we're to the point that the making of aircraft can factor in appearance, then this technology has been hidden for a very long time." At this point the craft has almost landed. Up close, it can be seen that one of the "foreverworks" is heavilly damaged. Their seems to be a number of shrapnel penetrations on a single side, while the other seemes to have a chunk cleanly sliced off. If one word were to be used to describe it, cute would be very popular.
It almost looked like a toy, a fictional work, for children to read aqbout and play with. Accept for thee tail. For lack of better word to describe it, that's what it appeared to be. Watson felt it looked like the muscular barbed stinger of the scorpions he enountered in Africa while he was in service. Homes himself was completely silent, almost petrified. But his eyes gave away how alert he was. Eyes darting back and forth. Taking in every detail. "Astounding."