1st Floor Rec Room, Thursday Morning

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Atton had been taking it easy since last Thursday-- okay, maybe what he was doing could be better described as 'keeping his head down', but whatever, it came down to the same thing. Taking it easy meant card games on his iPad, card games with his physical pazaak cards, and, well, eventually he'd been drawn downstairs in hopes of finding a card game on the school's game computers. Consoles. Whatever you wanted to call them.

And here he was, just about ready to tackle his favorite pass time in a whole new setting, when suddenly his eye was caught by something else. Something shiny. Something potentially entertaining that didn't involve beating himself ad nauseum.

Apache: Air Assault.

Apaches were really rudimentary flying machines, he knew that. It couldn't hurt figuring out how to fly one. And, well, if he kept playing it well into the afternoon, that was just how you did training, dammit.

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Emily was walking back into the dorms after her morning run and heading into her room to get ready for classes when the noise of what could only be a helicopter attracted her attention.

Whatever she was about to say was quietly muted as she stood there stating for a moment. "Not too bad," said at last, apparently content with watching.

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"Yeah, it's not too bad a game," Atton agreed. "I mean, your local tech is completely outdated, but at least it's fun--"

Sorry, there was some shooting to be done, Emily.

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"And you're not crashing everywhere, so even better," added Emily as she pondered his words. "Right, it's hard to remember everything probably looks outdated to you."

She actually didn't mind for once. At least he wasn't yelling at the game. Yet.

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Nah. Atton wasn't much of a yeller. More the 'look intensely focused' type. "Outdated and different," he said. "But these Apache copters at least handle okay."

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The more you know! "I'm just a couple of years before this and I'm surprised by stuff. The Apache are supposed to be the fastest helicopters or something." All she knew abut helicopters she had learnt it in Flight class.

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"The slowest speeder or ship I can find can outrun this thing," Atton threw out there. "But hey, if you've got enough skill, you can make anything fly good."

He was going to go back on that sometime halfway into the Ebon Hawk's second crash.

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"You're the one that sounds like you can fly stuff, so I'll take your word from it." Very carefully, of course. "So what is that game about, beyond flying a helicopter?" Disadvantages of walking in halfway the game.

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"Some war, somewhere, you fly the copter and you blow things up," Atton said, shrugging. "I skipped through the details. A war's a war."

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"And I thought guys complained about not having a compelling plot in their games," said Emily with a little laugh. "Not one to talk about wars, myself." At least not the kind Atton was thinking.

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"Neither am I, but you don't see me laying off the game for it," Atton lied easily. "Hey, you're in Flight class, right?"

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"You're not half bad, so as long as it's entertaining I'm not complaining," answered Emily with a little shrug. "Uh-huh. So are you, right? The game reminded me the class we got to fly one."