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Man, everything gets pretty crazy when these experiment-things happen, doesn't it? ....oh well.

Hey, out there! Anybody who actually knows how to fly- got any advice? How do you do it? Magic, wings, a bit of both? I'd really appreciate the help!

[Zack woke up different this morning- not to the same degree as nearly everyone else, it seems, but enough to notice pretty damn fast. Getting changed was an adventure of yelping, flailing, and finally getting himself a pair of scissors to do some surgery on his shirt- because he woke up with a pair of very different white wings stuck to one side of his back.

It's not a bad change, mind you- after dealing with Angeal and Genesis for as long as he did, he'd begun to envy their wings and ability to fly the way they did, even if they were horribly unfair about their expectations of people 8| So after giving it some thought, there was really only one thing to do:

Fly.

Thus, he will spend the majority of the day learning to flap his new wings, jumping off rooftops, baffling over how the hell Angeal and Genesis balanced themselves in the air with such one-sided wings.

...Oh, and faceplanting in the snow. He'll do a lot of that. Thank goodness for durable SOLDIER bones, eh?]

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Sounds like fun! [Where can be get one.] That would be pretty useful right about now.

Hm... unfortunately, I don't think the shops here carry them. [ Which is a shame, since she could definitely find a few uses for one here too. Who needs crap like toasters when you could be using technology to pseudo-fly? ]

Yeah, I didn't think so... ah well. What are wings for, right? [Like a giant wall of optimism, go!]

[ Lightning pauses, suddenly aware of one important fact: this man must never, ever meet Snow Villiers. Not if everything in existence is to avoid being swallowed into a black-hole of their personalities combined. ]

Crashing into snowbanks, apparently. [ Humorless. Or... is she? In any case, she looks thoughtful as she studies the wings once more, considering the problem herself. ] So you were a soldier, right? Did they not teach you how to fall at all?

[Whether or not it was intended for humour, Zack laughs anyway, dusting a bit of spare snow out of the larger wing.] Sure they did, but falling out of the air is a little different, especially with these things. A proper roll could break them, and I think I'm better off avoiding that.

I mean... tch. [ Right, right. If they don't have anything like a grav-con to break the fall at the end, there would probably be no point anyway. She shakes her head, but then seems to straighten without really thinking about it, her voice taking on a bit of a sharp edge. ] You need to watch what you're doing with your body in the air- your entire body, rather than just focusing on what the wings are doing. If you don't learn to supervise your form first, you're just going to keep losing control.

[ ... He was looking for a lecture like he was one of her subordinates, right? Just pretend to go along, man, and never mind he'd most likely outrank her anyway. She's totally on a roll now. ] And yeah, you also need to focus on figuring out how you're going to land-- before flinging yourself off things like some five year old off a high dive. One wrong move when you hit a gust of wind, and you'll be finding a lot more ways to break those things than you even imagined.

[....It's a good thing that wasn't written, man, because he'd have dozed off about halfway through. He has such a non-conventional way of dealing with things, so working things out ahead of time was... not exactly his thing. He shuffles a bit at the lecture, scuffing a hand through his hair.]

Well... you know... doing things without a plan is part of what makes it an adventure. It wouldn't be much fun if I thought about every little thing before acting. [Even if he takes a tumble every time he tries, he's been enjoying each and every roll through the snow. (Yes, even the ones where he bumped his head.) Broken wings? Not high on his list of concerns, especially considering how durable Angeal's were.]

[ Frooown + blinking through long lashes. Back on Cocoon, it's all rules and regulations, baby. None of this 'adventure' stuff when you're in the military. ]

Well, you don't have to plan everything through, but it would help some, right?

[Zack is pretty against-the-flow regardless of location. He can't deny that she doesn't have a good point there, though.]

It can't hurt, I guess. Any suggestions?

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