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Being outside was definitely something Rachel considered a bonus. He didn't like being cooped up indoors, it made him feel caged and tended to be annoying. Today he had an excuse not to teach his student inside - he was to be continuing on a previous lesson she'd got, a flight lesson. Yay, finally something he was decent at.


The girl he was assigned to teach that day was a combination of Sloth and Chastity. Really, he didn't want to mess with the Chastity part - that just sounded dangerous to try and teach a kid either to be chaste or against being chaste. However, teaching her not to be lazy, that he could deal with a bit. Previously, Allete had 'learned to fly' but he was informed that had mostly been her flapping a few times and falling asleep.

Well, there was a pretty decent way to keep someone awake when learning how to fly - have not being conscious be a risk to their life. He had the strength and flight skill to be able to keep a student from falling to their death (he'd had to do that to a few students and their dragons before on several occasions) but this girl didn't need to know that. Her mother might (worrying parents needlessly tended to lead to trouble) but Allete didn't. He could take her up high, and have her work to stay up there. That might dissuade her from sleeping.......or not. Depended on just how strong her laziness was, really.


Oh well, he'd just have to wait and see. She should have been arriving about then anyway.

"Your daughter is going to need to sit there and rest a few minutes while I inform you of the plan for the class. She's going to be needing whatever energy she can muster if she wants to get through this lesson unscathed, so I'd suggest she get it now. I need to speak with you anyway, Ms. Ledell." he informed Niki, after only a short moment of taking in both of their appearances.

He'd have payed more attention to Allete if he hadn't been eager to get this part of the session over with. Parents were always something Rachel had had trouble dealing with, particularly since he'd never had any of his own. He could be attentive to the girl when she was learning. For now, some things just had to be dealt with. Anyway, what'd he care if she liked him? He wasn't paid to be likable.


When Niki approached him, he bowed his head slightly before speaking. "My plan for today's class is more trying to get beyond your daughter's laziness, rather than actually teaching her to properly fly. I was informed that she didn't even get far off the ground last time before falling asleep."

It was then that he'd have to reveal how he'd have to teach the class. Oh dear.

"My intent was to take Allete up a bit higher in the air for the flight practice. That way, the belief would be that if she falls asleep, she'll be a world of pain and it might discourage her from doing that." he explained, tone calm but somewhat lower than usual so the preteen wouldn't hear, "I was a flight instructor at another location for some time and am experienced enough to be able to keep her from actually falling and getting hurt, should it come to that, but that hopefully will not be necessary."

Okay, now to see what sort of reaction he got. Seriously, this man must actually be crazy.

Rachel nodded, "We shall see." he said calmly.


Walking over, the man knelt and lifted the practically unconscious girl, spreading his wings and flying higher with her. High over the ground, he held Allete and pinched her on the arm, carefully.

"Time to wake up, kid. You'll be needing to get your rear in gear or you might not live to play any more video games, or whatever it is you like doing." he informed her, voice strong and clear. They were too far up for Niki to hear, but he was definitely loud enough that the half dead Allete might actually hear and take in what he was saying.

Rachel looked down at her, his expression almost daring the girl to go back to sleep now. "You are at about 30 to 50 feet off the ground, at present. You have two options at present. Wake up the rest of the way and get to pumping your wings till you can actually use them for flight, or go back to sleep and plummet. Either way, I will be letting go in a short while so I'd suggest you take the first option if you value your health and your life."

Slowly, Rachel's previously calm and daring look turned almost devious and he lightly loosened his grip on Allete, rising just a bit higher in the air as he did.

"Do you really want to test me? I've got very little to lose here. My life is of a lot less value to me than yours is to you. Flight doesn't just come naturally, and you're going to want to get to working those wings if you want to get out of this with the use of your arms at the very least."

"Keep going." he said, tone still daring her not to believe that he'd drop her and loosening his hands a bit more. He actually was planning to - he'd catch her but still, she didn't need to know that. "You're going to want to flap more and more until you feel strong enough to pull out of my hands and stay aloft on your own. And when you get to that level, you'll have to keep it up to stay up here instead of plummeting."

"Keep it up and you can get back to the ground. Once you're up on your own, you can probably just glide down. Gliding's much easier than flying, you just have to get to a certain point before you can glide." for once his tone was actually...reasonable and almost friendly? Which, it actually was.

He was required, as a teacher, to attempt to teach her something. As the kind of teacher he was, he required of himself to get her to put a tad of effort in. Other than that, he could care less. After she did that, she could go. It was getting her to that point that was the tricky thing. Just like with gliding and flying. You have to get to a certain point in flight before you can just glide.