002 [Action-allllll over the place.]

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

[Scenario A: Morning]

[Anyone who decides to come into the cafeteria on this fine morning may just find Lightning at a table near the back, an empty plate near a notepad as she jots down notes. Anyone who gets close will see that it's a lesson plan for her classes, but there's a second smaller pad half hidden under it with words like "doubles?" and what look to be tactical plans for...something. It's all in abbreviations, making it ridiculously hard to make out, and it's unlikely that she'll talk about that one.]

[Scenario B: WTR 301 Class; 1400 to 1500 hours]

[Good afternoon, class. Feel free to walk in on your pink-haired teacher doing some last minute gun checks on that row of handguns you can see on a low counter, while a few meters behind there's another counter with cans of varying height and width. Once everyone's in the class and seemingly ready for this, Lightning will gesture over to the cans.]

You'll be shooting these today. The fewer shots you use to take them all down, the better.

[No nonsense tone is get; Instructor Farron isn't playing games, but...then again...when does she play games?]

[Scenario C: after class]

[With classes over and notes attended to until late in the night, anyone who finds their way to the Quad will find Lightning sitting on a bench, performing routine maintenance on one of these, seemingly without a care to the world around her. Feel free to approach and ask her just what kind of weapon that is, or to just stare. Though that second option is likely to get you an odd look, she won't bite.

No promises on the lack of linefacing, though. She does that a lot.]

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Comments

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

You're telling me. I was amazed. Kiden's seen me fly it, before, but managing to drive it the way she did was something else. I told her she oughtta go into piloting.

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

[Lightning obviously wasn't there, so she can't say just how good Kiden would be at piloting the thing, but if Snow's impressed...]

You tell her to talk to Sazh? He should be able to give her some pointers.

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

Given that I'd just caught them midair in the middle of their great escape, I didn't think she wanted to hear the details of piloting at the time.

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

[Bit of a headshake; a couple of kids stole the thing, got it up in the air, and didn't die in a burning wreck. Lightning is sure whether she should be amazed or annoyed.]

Probably not. Would have been better to tell her once you got them back on the ground.

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

A kid like that, the best you can do is throw it at them and hope it sticks. They're not the sort who believe in idealism, heroism, and the best of people.

[He knows they think he's an idiot. Watch him not care.]

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

Think you can get through to them?

[Because Lightning has indeed watched him not care; he got through to her, saved her, and that last bit was without even really trying, so if he really wants to...she has no doubt he can get through to a couple students.]

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, but that had also taken them being forced together through any number of life-threatening circumstances, and both of them had the exact same goal of getting Serah back. So he's not quite as optimistic this time.]

Don't know. All I can do is believe, but that's easy enough for them to pretend doesn't exist when they're not in my classes.

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

[Not quite as optimistic doesn't mean he has no hope at all, though. If Snow lost all hope, Lightning would...do something besides worry. Right now, though...]

It might be easy enough for now, but with enough time, it'll get through to them. They'll start to wonder if you're right and just go from there.

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

Maybe, if enough people besides me around them do it too. I'll keep my eye out as much as I can, too.

[Snow can't lose all hope, but he does recognize that he might not be able to save everyone. That won't stop him from trying, of course...]

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

They should be fine. You're stubborn enough to make it work.

[That much Lightning knows for a fact, and it shows in her tone even as she begins to gather her things.]

Still, if you need help...you know you can call me.

[She would come to his aid, if he really needed it. That much she was also sure of.]

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

I hope they end up in your class sometime. I think you might be more their style than I am.

[In other words, the strict sort as opposed to the laid-back sort.]

[nvrstrikestwice.livejournal.com]

I'll keep an eye out for them in case they do. These two have names?

[Because while "Kiden" is something to go on, it's not much, really.]

[haha-steelguard.livejournal.com]

Kiden and Zephyr. Not sure what either of them are taking at the moment. I'm pretty sure both of them are new this quarter.

[But there's only one of each, here!]