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Flight & Flying [Tuesday, May 19, 4th period]

Anakin was almost smiling today as the class met in the Danger Shop. Creepy.

"Today we're going to continue with land-based transportation," he said quietly, pointing to two motorcycle-esque machines hovering on either side him. "This is a swoop bike," he said, pointing to one, "and the one on the left is a speeder bike, the slightly newer model, which is also equipped with a laser cannon. Don't use the laser cannon, please. Both fly like the motorcycles of your world drive, but can get up to 400 kilometers an hour. That being said, you will be wearing helmets and there are two different scenarios based on your level of skill. One is a city planet with very tall buildings to miss. The second is a forest moon with trees hundreds of meters tall."

He gave the class a tight smile. "Please don't hit a tree or a building and explode. There will be mocking. If you do it intentionally, there will be detention."

He clapped his hands. "Begin."

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Tahiri glanced over at the bikes and shrugged, though not out of apathy. "Pretty much, yeah. You'd be better off asking Jaina or Ben for more technical details, though. Not really my strong point."

"Oh, I wouldn't really get anything too technical anyway," Zayne said. "I'm just surprised that they look almost exactly the same as they do in my time. I would have imagined... I don't know, some difference over a couple thousand years."

"If it isn't broken, don't fix it?" Tahiri suggested with a shrug. "I mean, just because a design is old doesn't mean it needs to be improved or anything."

She might unconsciously have been echoing a sentiment she'd heard more than a couple of times from the owner of a certain YT-1300 Corellian light freighter, maybe. Maybe.

"That's true," Zayne said. "And it's not like lightsabers have changed at all, so I should be used to it by now."

"Is there anything that has, that you've noticed?" Tahiri mused idly.

"Clothing," Zayne said. "And I assume the starfighters I see in this class will be different. But that's about it."

It was almost as if they existed in a universe that liked to keep things as similar as possible throughout thousands of years of storytelling. But that would be silly.

That would be very silly. Like the same things happening over and over again throughout their galaxy's history.

"Probably," Tahiri agreed. "X-Wings have changed a lot over just the past few years for me, even. You'll do astral at this, though. Me, I'm not so sure about."

"X-Wing?" Zayne asked. "Come on, you'll do great. You did pretty well with the podracer, and you don't even have to worry about the weird engines here."

"One of the most common starfighters in our time," Tahiri explained, in the vague way of someone who couldn't help knowing about the things, but didn't exactly spend all her time on a hangar deck. "And I don't know. I was pretty awful all through Flight Club this past semester. Most of these things aren't built for someone my size."

"Then you got all of the badness out of the way already," Zayne offered. "I have faith that you'll do fine."

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Tahiri blinked at him in surprise, then smiled. "You know, that never gets less good to hear. Thanks, Zayne -- I have faith in you too."

Wow. It was refreshing to have someone that optimistic around.

"Thank you. But could you save that faith for another week when I'll really need it?" Zayne half-joked.

Tahiri considered this for a moment. "Sure, if you do the same for me." She gave him a crooked smile. "Seems like the bar for us is set awfully high sometimes, if you know what I mean."

"I definitely do," Zayne said. "We're expected to be good pilots and great fighters and everything. It doesn't always work that way, though. So every little bit of faith helps."

"No kidding." Tahiri chuckled. "Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Master Skywalker and Jaina and Ben and their family, but I feel like living up to their standard of achievement is just about impossible, a lot of the time. We can't all be that good at everything. I'm not really that good at most things."

She took a breath -- she'd rattled all that off quickly, as usual -- and shrugged. "So I guess we just keep working at it, right?"

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