Since Admiral Airey was just floating around, it was perfectly acceptable for Oliver to do the same. Right? Right. Plus, it could be helpful in answering a question. In fact, his answer to the second question could be pretty much as exactly the same as his answer to the first. So he raised his hand to basically repeat himself. "Meteors are bits of rock in space. They float around, and sometimes crash into planets." And this was where simply floating around came in handy. Olly curled himself into a ball as tightly as he could and crashed floated right into Ellery. She was the planet and he was the meteor, see?