I2 - Nailah Weaver's Flying Circus

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:03 pm

Nailah is wandering back and forth on an open bit of lawn, waiting for Sam and possibly Charles to show up so she can try to teach them how to fly. Occasionally she stops and does some half-assed stretches, mostly just to calm her nerves. She's not really sure she's cut out to teach anybody anything, but she promised and she'd really like some company up in the air.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:50 pm

Sam approaches from the far end of the lawn, giving a sheepish wave once she sees Nailah look her way.

She's wearing her training uniform, as she doesn't really have anything sufficiently low-backed for wings handy.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:58 pm

"Hey Sam!" she waves back and waits for the red-head to walk over.

"What's up?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:07 pm

"Well you know, ready to make a fool of myself, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:31 pm

"Pish-posh, you'll do fine. Dunno if Charles is coming . You up for this even if he doesn't? I promise not to laugh."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:37 pm

"Still want to try, aye? Not like I wear this suit for nothing," she smirks.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:51 pm

"And it'll be so worth it, I promise. Okay, so, first up you need some wings, I guess." she says, unfolding hers and pointing at them as if she was explaining some profound truth.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:58 pm

"...well alright, then." She says, making mental contact and shifting her body until she stood there as Nailah's twin.

She shifts her weight from one foot to the other for a moment, tail thrashing.

"Definitely going to take some getting used to," she says in Nailah's voice, her normal accent gone.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:31 pm

"This is so freaky." she laughs, eyeing herself. "I so don't sound like that."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:37 pm

"Hey, if you want to imagine a different winged body for me, be my guest."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:51 pm

"Alright, I can give this a shot..." she says and focuses on just picturing Sam with two wings sprouting from her back. Her mind's eye decides that brown wings don't really work for Sam, so after her thoughts cycle through a couple different colors she finally settles on black ones.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:55 pm

Sam shifts back to herself and focuses on Nailah's mental image, shivering a bit at the moment that Nailah finally settles on black wings. Soon, a pair every bit as impressive as Nailah imagined sprouts, spreading out behind her.

"Well ah... you've got good taste, definitely."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:04 pm

"Can't just have you stealing my wings and cramping my style. Get your own!" she chuckles.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:05 pm

"Aye, but I look good in black," she smirks.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:38 pm

"Yup! Okay, so, you ready to get started?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:42 am

"I guess, if we're not waiting longer for your friend."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:13 am

"He can join in if he shows up. I can instruct him while you practice."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:15 am

"Well alright," she nods.

"Is this the bit where we jump off of roofs?" She teases.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:25 am

"Pff, please, you gotta work your way up to roofs." she chuckles. "First thing is you spread your wings and get a feel for how they move and then you try to spread them out so they catch the wind a little." she says, demonstrating. She leans a little bit forward and down while her wings unfold behind her.

by **Charles Franklin** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:47 am

Charles was late and stopped to drop his stuff off under a tree before moving towards the two and seeing the wings stopped in his tracks.

Why does everybody else get the nice feathery looking ones...

He waited for Nailah to finish talking to Sam before walking over to join in on the lessons.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:26 am

Sam, oblivious to Charles coming up behind, and dutifully doing as Nailah asks, spreads her wings with an audible fwoomp.

"Like that, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:02 am

"Yeah. Oh hi Charles!" she says, waving at the boy as he walks over. "We're just getting started."

by **Charles Franklin** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:08 pm

"Hi, sorry I'm late," Charles said, "Glad I didn't miss the fun part. Oh, right wings."

Charles focused on wings as he shifted and after a few minutes something suitably terrifying was sitting next to Samantha and Nailah.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:11 pm

Nailah is fairly open-minded when it comes to people looking different than the norm, but this is seriously taxing her ability to not scream.

"H-holey moley, what is that!?" she squeaks out, instinctively taking a step backwards.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:32 pm

"It's still him," Sam insists, perhaps a bit strenuously.

"Can you still talk?" She asks Charles.

by **Charles Franklin** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:44 pm

Knew I should have practiced this in front of a mirror first

"It's just...something with wings," Charles said his voice lacking emotion and sounding more like animal mimicry than a person. The oddness was completed by the space between words containing the occasional odd clicking noise. "I guess the answer is that yes I can in fact talk that's at least convenient, eh?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:46 pm

"Do you... uhm... can you, like, grow any legs?" she asks, trying to regain her composure. "Cause taking off without a headstart is really tough..."

by **Charles Franklin** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:16 pm

"Legs? I think, yeah, probably," Charles said as he focused on trying to integrate legs into the mix. Four insect-like limbs grew out of his torso so that he could run or or maybe just leap into the sky it was kind of hard to tell.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:22 pm

"Well... okay, I guess that works." she says, taking up her previous pose again. "Anyway, I was just telling Sam how to hold yourself and to just kind of spread your wings and feel them out and lean into the wind a bit." she says, demonstrating by leaning forward and angling her spread wings a little into the faint breeze.

"It's not very windy, so what you do is you just start running into the wind and try to find the right way to hold your wings. You'll know you got it because they'll stop dragging you down but instead it'll be like you're cutting through the wind and ideally they should start to tug you up just a little." she says and starts to run across the lawn. She spreads her arms as well and tilts her hands into the wind a bit the same way she does with her wings just to show Sam and Charles what she means.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:32 pm

"Well at least if he looks silly, nobody will have the nerve to say so," she chuckles.

by **Charles Franklin** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:35 pm

Charles made an odd chittering noise that was most likely laughter.

"Maybe I'll just unnerve the super villains into submission," Charles said as he tried to copy what Nailah was doing by opening his wings and trying to feel the breeze.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:45 pm

"Come on, Sam!" Nailah shouts when she notices Sam still just standing there. She leans into a curve and comes running back, still with her arms out as if she was pretending to be a plane. It'd look worse if she didn't also have actual wings, but, well, truth be told it still looks pretty silly. "It's like holding your hand out the window on a car ride."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:37 pm

"Here goes nothing, then." She grins and spreads her wings again, taking a few passes running.

by **Charles Franklin** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:45 pm

Charles made quiet airplane noises to himself for a little bit. Though they probably sounded more like hissing to everybody else. He thought he was starting to get a feel for thaw wind.

"So what's next, teach?" Charles asked as he ran in circles.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:57 pm

"Next you jump!" she says as she does just that, beating her wings and jumping a couple feet into the air before gliding down again. "Just flap your wings and try to find the windflow again."

by **Narrator** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:39 pm

Tittering could be heard from a nearby bush--was someone laughing at them?

by **Charles Franklin** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:51 pm

Charles was pointedly trying to ignore the laughing he heard. He was well aware that he looked ridiculous while jumping and flapping his wings trying to feel the wind.

Just ignore them... sure we don't have nice feathery wings

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:03 am

Nailah, on the other hand, wasn't having any of this.

"Hey! Who's laughing?" she demands loudly, turning a sharp curve in her gliding descent to take her towards the direction she'd heard the laughter from.

by **Narrator** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:47 am

One of the bushes was vibrating--the source of the noise?

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:55 am

Nailah aims to land in front of it to get up in the face of whoever is clearly hiding in the bushes. "Hey you, get outta here!"

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