Talk:With Friends Like These/@comment-205.201.223.21-20200128171503/@comment-4010415-20200130022132

For whatever reason, Grimm either can't fly high enough to get to the atmosphere or can't survive there, and then there's the fact that Dust stops functioning when it reaches the atmosphere, which means that no one would be able to fly an airship up to the City of Atlas. (Don't ask why they thought they could use Dust to put Amity Tower into the atmosphere because I don't know, unless they expected to just yeet it up there and hope it stayed)

So theoretically, maybe Salem wouldn't be able to get up there either, unless her magic can help her.

And I'm assuming Ironwood has decided he doesn't have time to find Cinder and boot her off the island, so he'll rocket the city into the sky and then worry about cornering Cinder to arrest or kill her.