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The Dorm Roof, Thursday, Late Afternoon

Sholeh had never been out on the roof before. But when you asked someone for help fulfilling homework assignment and their suggested means of transportation was 'jet pack,' the roof seemed like the best place to start.

Or, at least it did once you looked up what a jetpack actually was.

So, bundled up in her warmest coat and thickest skirts, Sholeh was admiring the view from the roof and boggling a little that soon she'd be seeing the whole island from this vantage.

*Aren't you scared?* Zhahar asked nervously. *To be flying up so high?*

::Are you kidding?:: Sholeh replied, grinning. ::This is so exciting!::

[Open for both fliers and non!]

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"Okay," Evan said, peering down at the island below, "you're sure you want to do this? I mean, there are tons of better flyers on the island than I am, I'm sure."

He wasn't bad at flying, so long as he was pointed in the right direction!

... Landing was a different matter entirely.

"I mean, I promise I won't drop you or anything. That much isn't even a possibility."

"Better fliers like who?" Sholeh asked, because she honestly didn't know. "And even if there are, I don't know them. I'd far rather go flying with a friend, you know?"

Ignore that slight blush that appeared almost on cue at the word 'friend.'

Evan... also hadn't met any better fliers, honestly. He was blushing a little more himself as she spoke, and then holding out his arms.

"Well... then I'm your guy," he decided. "I mean... for flying... I..."

Yep. He used to know how to speak real words, in sentences and everything, once. And then he took a Sholeh to the heart.

"Hang on tight?"

"Guess you are," Sholeh agreed, before suddenly finding the view once again utterly CAPTIVATING. Because, you know, it was over there. And not looking at anyone.

"Umm..." Dang it, she had to look back at him again. "Hang on how? How do you want me? I mean--" Zeela's snickers cued her in to realizing that wasn't the best way to phrase it. "How should we do it? Err..."

There was no way she was going to say this right tonight.

Oh, Evan's cheeks were practically glowing pink.

"If you turn around, I can put my arms around you," he offered, after a moment taken to find his voice again. "A... few times, just to be sure you're secure."

Sholeh was just going to nod and do that, turning around and taking a small step closer to him. Because he needed to hold on tight!

"...Is that what you meant when you said that falling isn't even a possibility?" she asked, trying to figure out how she'd overlooked something as basic as positioning when she'd asked him to help with her homework. "Your arms?"

"Maybe?" Evan had no idea, anymore! "I mean, if it isn't too weird. Is it weird?"

He was tentatively wrapping his arms around her, like a hug from behind.

It was a little weird, but Sholeh wasn't going to tell him that. The three-girls-in-on didn't have a whole lot of room to talk about the stretchy kid. "I'd much prefer not to fall, so hold on as tight as you want, okay?"

She looked over her shoulder to offer him a soft smile. "I trust you not to drop me."

That little smile was reassuring, at least, and Evan returned it with a smile of his own.

"I'd really prefer you don't fall, too," he replied, and then bit his lip and wrapped his arms around her a couple more times, just to be certain there was no chance of her falling. "You wanted to just fly across the island and back?"

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"That's about it," she said, wiggling against him a little to test out how secure his multiple grips were. "Well, that's all Mr. Starsmore said we had to do. I don't want to to make you go out of your way, either. I mean, any more than you already are."

Oh, Sholeh. Wiggling against him was a great way to make him blush even more.

"It's no trouble," he insisted, a little too quickly, and then looked out at the sky. "Um... Are you ready? I think we're ready to take off."

Taking off! To fly! Right? Right. That's what they were doing! And not... wiggling.

But she needed to make sure she was secure, all right! She'd never flown before!

"I'm ready," she said, trying not to wiggle more in anticipation. Because while she never had flown before, she was about to. This was so cool! "Let's go!"

"Let's go!" Evan agreed, all too enthusiastic, for whatever reason. He gave her a little squeeze, just so that she'd know he had a good grip on her, and then he picked her up and made a running leap off the roof.

The great thing about his jetpack was that he could operate it hands-free. His Uncle Cluster had done good by him when it came to heroing equipment. The jets kicked in and Evan kicked his feet out behind them, using them to steer and pointing them toward the far end of the island.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Sholeh shouted as soon as their feet left the rooftop. "We're flying! Evan, we're flying!"

In case he was uncertain about what was happening, here.

"We are," Evan laughed, too busy making certain he had a good grip on her to try anything fancy. Probably for the best, of course. A loop-de-loop would most likely end in tears. "We're Up in the air and flying! You've really never flown before?"

He'd been flying since he was eleven, so it was difficult to imagine anybody not.

Not her tears.

"Of course not!" she said, shouting half in glee and half to be sure he heard her over the rush of the wind. "What would I go flying with? We don't have jetpacks back home!"

"I... don't know!" Evan was laughing as he steered them toward the far end of the island, toward all of the newer buildings. "I'm just so used to people having things that they can fly around in, I guess. My last school had a whole class on flying with jetpacks!"

"There was the Flight class this year," Sholeh said, peering down at the island with delight. "But I didn't have room to take it! Now I'm wishing I'd planned better. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"It's a great class," Evan replied, laughing. "We've flown spaceships and helicopters and even hot air balloons so far! I'm sorry you didn't get to take it, you would have had so much fun!"

"If it's offered again, maybe I'll sign up for it!" Sholeh said, twisting around to get a better view of, well, everything and heedless to any danger in doing so. Evan had her, right? And the view was fascinating. "I'm sorry you've taken it already, though! We should take more classes together!"

"We should," Evan agreed, tightening his grip around her a little more. "I mean, pop culture is a fun class and all, too... But I probably would have taken every class if that had been an option. And in your company they would be so much better!"

"Why can't we take every class?" Sholeh whined. "There's plenty of room in my schedule for it, you know! And then we would have every class together, too! We could study together and do homework and--hey! What's that?!"

Togetherness activities were temporarily forgotten about in the face of a giant waving tentacle.

"Friendly.. giant... squid?"

One thing that Evan had never anticipated seeing while flying from one side of the island to the other was a giant squid, really.

"I guess maybe we're supposed to wave back, huh?"

There was some nervous (or excited, or both) squealing coming from Sholeh, but she managed to raise a hand and wave back. Her other hand was clutching onto Evan hard enough to turn her knuckles white, but she was still waving. That counted for something, right?

"Do you know what that is?" she gasped.

"A really really really big cephalopod!" Evan answered, circling around it a few times and giving it a nod of his head right back, since his arms were otherwise occupied. "I didn't know giant squid even lived around here!"

But, you know, Fandom.

"I think it's a little bit bigger than most giant squid usually are," Sholeh said, still waving like a maniac. "...Do you think we can get closer?"

"Sure we can," Evan decided, peering down curiously at the squid. "I don't think I want to fly out too far over the water, but we can definitely get a better look!"

He had to kind of admit, a giant giant squid had the better part of his curiosity.

"This is so cool!" Shole said as they got closer. "I wonder what its doing here! It's clearly choosing to be here, because most cephalopods are really, really smart! It could have found somewhere with warmer or deeper waters if it wanted to!"

"Yeah, the water off the shoreline is really cold," Evan agreed, curiously. "That can't be comfortable for it... at all."

He circled around again, smiling down at the friendly tentacle, until they could make out the shape of a huge, shadowy squid under the water.

"That is really cool."

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"That might be as big as the whole school..." Sholeh said in the hushed whisper of someone gazing upon something truly awe-inspiring. "Why is it here?"

"Why is anything here?" Evan was beaming, now, with a big smile directed down at the squid. "Maybe here's home? Fandom really does seem to attract things that are special, doesn't it?"

If it seemed like he was giving her an extra little squeeze when he said that...

... It was because he totally was.

Sholeh found herself blushing, glad that she was facing away from Evan as they flew. Had that been an extra squeeze, or was she just imagining things? It was hard to say.

"It really does," she said when her blushes as cooled. "It's a wonderful place filled with wonderful people."

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