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The Salle, Sunday Morning

It was still quite early when Tahiri headed down to the salle and, finding no one there as of yet, got her lightsaber and remotes out of the weapons locker. She did think to stick a sign on the door, though it wasn't quite the succinct "Caution: Live Fire Exercise" warning that usually got used for these things. What? "Watch Out For Lasers" worked, if you asked her. Sure, these were low-powered stun bolts, but still.

She examined the remotes for a moment, deciding to start with one at first; it had been a while since she'd done this. Really, a lot longer than it should have been. Now, to see if Dinah would show up first.

[OOC: Waiting for Dinah, but open of course!]

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Dinah was pretty impressed by the Laser waring as it was, so poked her head in to check if Tahiri had started. "Hey! Morning. Are those the little robots you were talking about?"

"Hi, Dinah!" Tahiri, who had not actually started yet, waved her in, and looked for the briefest moment like she wanted to make a face at the mention of robots. "Yeah, these are the remotes."

"Coooooool." Dinah's hand hovered over one, but she didn't quite dare pick it up. "Can I touch one?" She grinned a little. "And how was your Valentine's Day?"

"Sure," Tahiri said, waving a hand to levitate a (still deactivated) remote toward Dinah as, in response to the second question, she just grinned a lot.

"Yaaay," Dinah commented on the second thing, then grinned, and used her telekinesis to spin it around in the air, twirling, and then hovering a little higher.

"Careful with the switch," Tahiri warned her, watching with amusement. "How'd your Valentine's Day go?"

"Good flowers, good friends, and three-minute dates that were... interesting," Dinah said with a grin. "I've had lots worse." She carefully set the remote down, and stood up. "Ready whenever you are!"

Tahiri nodded. "You should probably stand clear," she suggested. "Stay near the door. I'm going to be directing these things the other way, but just stay ready to dodge in case. Unless you want to get zapped a little bit."

"I'm okay with not getting zapped," Dinah said hastily, moving out of the way. She pressed herself against the wall, eyes wide.

Tahiri gave her a quick grin and picked up one of the other remotes, thumbing the switch and letting it hover somewhere over her head. Unhooking her lightsaber from her belt, she ignited its ice-blue blade with the familiar (to her) snap-hiss and closed her eyes, reaching out in the Force to sense the remote.

"I know this looks kind of boring right now," she said, almost apologetically, as she brought the lightsaber up into guard position and took a step back, then another, circling cautiously.

Dinah heard, vaguely, about light-sabers-- either in class or on the Radio, she wasn't sure which-- but seeing one was entirely different.

"You are soooo wrong," Dinah said, getting ready to dodge, eye on the remote and Tahiri's swishing around the pretty, deadly light sword.

The remote was behind Tahiri now, as it sent the first stun bolt toward her, and she snapped the lightsaber up to catch the bolt on the blade and send it ricocheting back toward the remote.

Drawing on the Force for speed, she dove into a roll and came up on the other side of the remote almost in the speed of a blink just in time to spin and deflect first one, then another bolt -- still with her eyes closed, and making sure to send them in the opposite direction from Dinah.

"You should see some of the Masters do this with about a dozen."

"A dozen, holy crap how?" Dinah blurted, remembering Miss Atreides blurring across the room, and wondering if this was the same thing. "This is amazing!" Then she lowered her voice, adding, "Sorry, don't want to distract you!"

"It's okay," Tahiri assured her after deflecting two more stun bolts. "This is pretty basic anyway. I've been working with two or three lately, but it's harder to control where the bolts go when I'm trying not to hit you that way."

The remote paused in mid-air, then dove low at Tahiri's legs firing more stun bolts; she leaped straight up, nearly hitting the ceiling in her maneuver to avoid it, and landed more lightly than gravity should have allowed just in time to bat another bolt away.

"It's really, really appreciated," Dinah said, keeping her voice down. Then gaping as Tahiri aimed for the ceiling. "Ooooooooo."

Maybe, maybe, by the end of the year, she'd know how to use her TK like that, or move that fast...

"It would suck if I hit you," Tahiri called out. The remote looped around to her left, and while she caught the first and second bolts with two quick flicks of her lightsaber, the third one just missed singing the shoulder of her jumpsuit by virtue of a sharp, twisting dodge.

It kinda looked like it would a lot, like playing dodgeball with a taser. Sheesh. Dinah was quiet for several minutes, watching Tahiri twist, parry, dodge and duck, just amazed at what she could do.

"How long have you been studying, again?" she marveled.

Tahiri reached out with one hand and made a flicking sort of gesture, and the remote deactivated and clattered to the floor. "About six years now," she explained, "and I'm . . . well, I'm not that great."

"You are so wrong." Tahiri sounded enough like Dinah had been sounding to herself lately that she hoped the other girl would get it. "Really. This is amazing. Just being able to do this, it's, it's... Wow."

She ducked a stray bolt, eyes wide. "Really wow!"

"You haven't seen the other Jedi in action, then," Tahiri said, allowing herself a small smile at Dinah's enthusiasm.

"Nope, but this is still way cool," Dinah said, bouncing in place a little as she watched. "I guess they'd have to get that good, if they were going to use a light saber in a war zone, hunh?"

"In close quarters, and not cutting each other's limbs off," Tahiri agreed, and deactivated her blade. "There's a reason these are a Jedi weapon."

"Thanks for showing me," Dinah said, putting her hands in her pockets. "It's really incredible." She tilted her head. "What do the Jedi do, anyway? I know they're the side you're on, and Mr. Skywalker, I read about that."

She was blocking out everything else about that article except a dog sitting on a teacher's head.

"But I don't know anything else about them."

"In a nutshell? Whatever we're needed to be at the moment," Tahiri said. "Mediators, keepers of the peace, problem solvers, fighter pilots -- except not me, I'm a disaster in a cockpit."

"Like Arthur's knights, sorta," Dinah said, kind of amused. "Roaming cops slash diplomats slash soldiers, hunh." She shook her head amusement fading. "Tough tough job."

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