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I've got a better idea. We'll live vicariously through the other Asamis on the internet.

[ Because she cannot stand this talk of her and Korra and... Them. Together. ]

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Aw, come on, it's not like being five or something... I am transitioning into being an adult, you know. Even if people don't see it.

I know plenty of people who were less mature than me and older! It's not like a switch gets flipped and then it's safe to teach someone to drive!

Ah, I see your point Luke. It took me years to convince my dad to let me behind the wheel of a satomobile.

All anyone but Biggs will let me fly is a hoverscooter. Those are embarrassing, they don't even go fast enough to need a windscreen or goggles!

[seriously, they're kid stuff.]

What does Biggs let you fly?

He's got a new landspeeder! [Luke would say the model, but it's two am and the mun's unwilling to dig through her book collection to look it up just now.] It's so fast, and it's got an optimum flight ceiling of four meters. He only lets me try it when we're way out in the desert far from everyone, though.

A landspeeder? [ She doesn't know what that is, but can get the general picture. ]

You said it's fast? So what's your top speed?

Yeah, they... well, they hover. Over the ground. There's landspeeders and airspeeders, and airspeeders are more like proper ships, they're built differently.

I got to two fifty klicks per hour! ...Actually it's only sort of new, it's the shell of an old Selaniko Sportster, but he bought a new Aratech Arrow and just... took the engine out and rebuilt it into the Sportster. You can do that when you're rich I guess, buy speeders just to use bits of them... Well, it does work great. The handling is amazing!

Wow. I have to be honest, Luke. This kind of technology is probably centuries away on the planet I'm from. It almost sounds like what you're describing is a Satomobile, but one that flies. What a picture. [ Airships she can see. ]

And listening to you talk, I can only assume you're quite the pilot.

I wish I could show you! There are some groundcars on Tatooine, with wheels and all, but they have to stay on roads, so there's just a few, and in cities.

I plan to be! One day. My father - well, okay, he was a navigator on a spice freighter, but those have to know how to fly the ship too, they'd have to. People who knew him say I'm a lot like he was.

What kind of pilot?

[suddenly, serious!]

The wandering kind. The kind who's been everywhere, or almost, and seen a little of everything... The kind who never stays in one place for long, and calls space home. And who's been the first human to see a bunch of things.

I think I'd like that.

What would you do for an income?

Umm... I think I figured this out once...

Oh, I'd join the Survey Corps! They put together these small teams of people to go out into the unknown and map it, and they make first contact! It's really dangerous work and complicated, so the teams have a lot of autonomy, it's not like set schedules and rigid orders and so on.

I can see the appeal, despite the dangers.

Everywhere is dangerous in some way. ...Well, everywhere interesting. You just have to rise to meet it!

Hmm. You know? Going somewhere could be a nice change of pace. [ Maybe she'll take her mun on after all. ]

Yeah! As long as it's, y'know, one of the places where you get to choose things and rule your own life a bit and it's not all miserable. There's a lot of them.

Really? For some reason my mun's attracted to the worst.

Mine says

the_library is as dark-looking as she ever wants to go. We actually left a game that was pretty good because she doesn't like what happens with me when someone close goes and turns evil... well, and 'cause most of the other people I knew there were gone.

...She doesn't have a lot of muses, so she gets really attached to us.

Edited 2012-06-30 20:37 (UTC)

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