On your broomsticks! [OPEN]

[theboywhodied]

Following the instructions given to him by crew members here and there, Cedric stepped through a green archway tucked on a corner of the fifth floor and entered a grey void. He closed his eyes, concentrating on the sort of place that would be perfect for a day of flying. He imagined a bright grassy plain, a large lake, and a forest off to the side. Vague memories turned into vivid images surrounding him, so thoroughly convincing that he really believed he'd been taken from the ship and placed on a field back on Earth. It was quite a convincing illusion
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All it needed now was the key piece: a group of brooms. He thought for a moment on which brooms to provide them with. Firebolts were the world standard, but he'd never known one well enough to be able to picture it accurately. The school brooms, Shooting Stars, were nice and safe for new riders but not quite reliable. In the end, he knew his own broom best: a sleek Nimbus 2001, gifted by his father. As long as he instructed the fliers to go slowly, they should be safe on those brooms.

Visitors would find Cedric side-mounted on a broom in his black and yellow Quidditch robes, gliding just slightly over the grass. As soon as he spotted them, he'd greet them enthusiastically and move to touch down. "Hi!"

((ooc: wide open for everyone to join in! We'll be doing some group exercises too, so thread around! Fly as a group when you're ready!))

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[greeedycat]

"Airplane?" He'd...never been on one, and only had a vague sense of what one was. "Cars, motorcycles...roller coasters. Trains. That sort of stuff~"

It wasn't like he wanted to be coddled, but hurking a bunch of cell medals all over might make the human spaz or something. Not desirable. "Ah, well~ I guess I'll try the hovering, then. But..."

Caz stared at the broom again. "How do you sit on it?"

[theboywhodied]

Ah, he remembered those. Cedric nodded, though he looked slightly more worried than before. "Just remember, you're in control. And you sit like this," he demonstrated, swinging his leg over the broom and re-mounting.

"First, though, you'll want to gain your broom's trust. There's one on the ground just over there. All you have to do is hold your hand over it and command it to jump into your hand. You just say 'Up!'", he explained, hoping that time would help the man get in the proper mindset.

[greeedycat]

Cazali crossed to the broom, staring down at it with all the careful skepticism he could muster.

"It's inanimate, though. How can it trust me?" Regardless, he steeled his face and held his hand out. "Up?"

[theboywhodied]

"Like that," Cedric said with a laugh as the broom jumped into Cazali's hand. "All you need to do is have confidence too. Are you ready to try?"

[greeedycat]

Caz didn't visibly startle or jump at the broom, though he did internally. This was definitely weird territory for him, and at the very least, the discomfort on his face was obvious.

"Confidence? Hn~" He normally had that in spades- well okay, a bit too much of that -but he was still a bit preoccupied with the whole 'magical broom trust' thing. A moment after staring at the broom, and he finally slung his leg over. That was probably the most confirmation to being ready as he was gonna give.

[theboywhodied]

"Good," Cedric encouraged gently, knowing not to push this too fast. That was just fine.

"Now when you're ready, just kick off and give it a try," he suggested, demonstrating a simple hover and drift this way and that.

[greeedycat]

Cazali seemed to shift and test the broom, but there seemed ot be something off about it. When he finally did kick off the ground, Caz nearly went flying in the air, gripping the broom like a startled cat and making an odd sort of jangling noise. A moment later, and he relaxed. He was rather a lot stronger than he seemed, or a lot lighter.

[theboywhodied]

"Uh oh---" Cedric instinctively tore off after him, hovering close in the event that he was needed. "Sorry. That's not supposed to happen. Are you all right?"

[greeedycat]

Caz seemed a bit on-off tense/relaxed, but eventually exhaled deeply and nodded. Which was also weird, why were all these humans pulling their little concern routines?

"I think I need a seatbelt~" ...maybe a bit of sarcasm would make him feel better.

[theboywhodied]

That was good. He seemed to be feeling better. Cedric relaxed slightly, letting out a laugh.

"You'll be caught if you start to fall. Just hold on tight. Bring your knees closer together and stretch your arms and legs over, it's more stable that way."

[greeedycat]

Cazali stretched out, keeping his grip tight and shifting a bit awkwardly. However, he eventually picked his head back up, clipping his hat awkward to the chain at the waist of his pants.

"You're not going to bug out if I shift to my natural form, right~?" Since when did he care to warn people? Whatever. If he wanted to play around with this broom stuff, he'd have to at least pretend to be nice.

[theboywhodied]

"True form?" Cedric hasn't heard that one before, but he thought he was safe. If not, he could defend himself. It was a risk worth taking to keep his student comfortable.

"Er...well I suppose so, sure! As long as that doesn't involve attacking me."

[greeedycat]

He didn't bother to explain further- yellow light, the sound of metal coins, and Cazali suddenly looked like a bondage cat. Caz flicked his longest spikedread over the opposite side of the broom, shifting to try and get comfortable.

"Okay~ I can feel the wind better like this, anyway." His illusion felt...stuffy, sometimes. Caz rested an elbow on the broom, seeming much more lackadaisical, pretty much draping on the broom. "Continue on, professor~"

[theboywhodied]

Cedric tried to disguise his surprise, but it didn't work very well. That was different. Not bad, but different! As long as he could still sit up on the broom, they could proceed with the lesson.

"Right. So we were at steering, right?" Right. He adjusted his grip on his own broom handle. "To do that, you just need to point the handle and shift your weight. Like this will make it move faster, and like this will slow it down," he explained, demonstrating each direction.

[greeedycat]

The Greeed tried to shift his weight, seeming much steadier even when the broom dipped a bit. Cazali let the long spikedread wrap around the broom after a minute, as if as a safety precaution, before-

"I think I got it~"

-deciding to zip off down the green. So what if he didn't know how to stop?

[theboywhodied]

"Hang on tightly!" Cedric called after Cazali, watching the zooming with a careful eye. He was unafraid of speed, that was good. Hopefully he'd be able to navigate everything successfully.

He followed behind, drifting this way and that way as he tried to predict where the other was going.

[greeedycat]

It hadn't occurred to Caz how stuffy the rest of the ship was until he'd shot off on some silly broom in a fake environment. It seemed silly in a way, but...he missed the feeling of wind rushing through his body. This was different than the coaster or a car, it wasn't enclosed- he didn't even feel motion sick.

Which roughly translated to 'Cazali was flying really really fast and erratically'. At the very least, he wasn't crashing in to things.

[theboywhodied]

So it seemed that Cazali was just fine. Cedric still watched warily, but he wasn't quite as worried. He was most likely going to be all right.

He dipped toward the lake and leaned down to trail his fingers in the water, still lifting his head to watch every so often. Cedric could zoom up just in case.