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Flight- Monday- 3rd period

The students had been instructed to meet in the Danger Shop, where they'd find themselves in a large field with hot air balloons in front of them. They'd also find Jaina, who was back to her correct gender and was shielding like woah, because sdhsdhs, basically.

"I did tell you you'd by flying all sorts of craft, didn't I?" she began. "For those of you who don't know, this is a hot air balloon. People get in these, fly through the air, and let the wind take them where it will. I think it's crazy, personally, but as long as we're in the Danger Shop, that's sort of the place for crazy."

She gave them a short lecture on how to actually work the things- most importantly how to get down- and said, "I want you to pair up in twos or threes if you want and take one of these things up for a while. And please, no one push anyone else out of the baskets, that's just uncalled for."

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Anakin was already examining the (really, really primitive) propulsion systems, but he had to stop and give Topher a disbelieving look. "This would be less of a problem if we could protect the balloon from leaves, but this thing probably can't generate enough power to spare for deflector shielding."

Anakin. Stop complaining.

"Yes, hence my concern," Topher replied. "If we had time or resources to actually play around with it, we could program it with super-powerful motion sensors so it could make that noise cars do when you're gonna reverse into some moron on a bike or something... but no."

"Yeah, but first we'd have to install something better than these." Anakin made a face as he tapped one of the fuel tanks, then rolled his eyes. "If you're that worried about the leaves, I can try and Force-shield the balloon, at least. If we can't even go out over the water this will be too boring."

Yeah, yeah, probably a gratuitous and unnecessary use of the Force. Whatever.

"...You know, I think I'm worried," Topher decided. He really wasn't, but he really wanted to see Anakin's powers at work. "You should definitely shield the balloon."

Thanks a lot, Topher. Feed his family's fears.

"Are you?" asked Anakin, who could have tapped into the Force to find out for himself but hadn't; either way, he was mostly just asking to be a pain. "And are the leaves around here really that sharp?"

He'd do it anyway, just because.

"Uh, yeah, they're called sword leaves," Topher confirmed. "It's basic biology, duh."

...No...

Anakin just looked at him.

"That's not a very scientific classification."

This conversation was going somewhat differently than Topher had imagined. He was still having fun, though, so he figured he'd continue.

"Well, the real name's Latin," he shrugged. "I can't pronounce that. 'Sword leaves' is the colloquial... Fandomy version."

"I'm looking that up later," Anakin informed him. Total side-eye going on here. "After we take this thing up for the slowest flight ever."

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