That one warehouse that's gotten tricked out- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

When she got in, Rey had started to make sure the remote by the door was disabled, and then decided midway through to just reprogram it as part of the course today, she hated the remotes, but she liked a challenge, and it would be good to run through this around whatever today's actual training was.

She was getting better at this, at least in little ways. She was faster, less concerned with being cautious, which also meant she had to improvise a little more. Like when things swung at her and she dove under them rather than dealing with them outright. And maybe she really regretted letting the door remote harass her while she was on ropes hanging from the rafters. The important thing was, she hadn't sent it flying into a wall yet.

So if you needed Rey, she was around.


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[betterthanaplan]

Duke, for one, was quite glad that remote had been redirected. Since he was swinging by and didn't have any Force senses to protect him and all.

"That . . . is a hell of an obstacle course."

[thatwaslucky]

"He had fun with this," Rey said, still going until she found a good spot to hop off the course. Most of it was up higher, and while eventually she'd be doing the full superhero landing, right now she was just determined not to shatter her ankles.

[betterthanaplan]

Yeah, Duke couldn't help but suck in a worried breath, even trusting that she knew what she was doing on the dismount, there.

He was definitely going to have to get her floating.

"And are you also having fun with it?"

[thatwaslucky]

Rey waited until she'd jumped off- safety, from no higher than she would have tried on Jakku- to say, "Yeah," like she was admitting something she shouldn't. "It's an insane version of some stuff I used to do."

[betterthanaplan]

"Good. No point in an obstacle course that isn't fun as well as a challenge. You're not in the Marines or something."

[thatwaslucky]

"That's a... water army thing?" Rey checked.

Somehow she'd never needed to know that.

[betterthanaplan]

"Yeah, basically. They're, like, half-Army, half-Navy, I think. They definitely think they're special. And they run a lot of really grueling obstacle courses."

Or did in media, anyway. Duke hadn't ever paid that much attention to the real thing.

[thatwaslucky]

"Hmm. Maybe I'll look at that when I get bored of this," Rey said. "...It'll be a while. The tightrope is still a little iffy."

Because if course there was a tightrope.

[betterthanaplan]

". . . Yeah, honestly, I think you'd probably find theirs kind of boring. It's all, like, crawling through mud carrying 50 pounds of gear and stuff."

[thatwaslucky]

"All right, maybe that's not for me," Rey said, looking up at the course. "I kind of like being up high, anyway."

[betterthanaplan]

"This thing definitely gives you that, then," Duke said. "I'm gonna have to start making you do yoga on a balance board or something. Stacked onto a tower of rocks."

[thatwaslucky]

"That sounds like a good way to have to take me to the clinic," Rey teased.

...Give her a couple months, anyway.

[betterthanaplan]

"Possibly," Duke agreed. "Or it might force you to learn to float. . . ."

[sith_happened]

"Rey?" Anakin called, not going through that open door in case all of the remotes were waiting for him.

Which, well, good job, Rey, if you got them to do that.

[thatwaslucky]

One day.

He probably heard the "Yeah!" from somewhere by the ropes, though.

[sith_happened]

"Hello up there!" Anakin said, waving.

[thatwaslucky]

"I can come down!" she said, batting away a remote.

[sith_happened]

"Take your time," Anakin said. "I'm learning how you're doing as you come."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey took that in, and nodded, running through the rest.

She didn't really try to impress anyone else now, but she was clearly learning from the course, getting better at dodging and ducking obstacles and getting faster at moving across things. The remotes, however, were still enough of a wild card that they could get some shots in at her because her focus was more on getting through.

[sith_happened]

Anakin noted all of that as she came down.

"We'll work more with the remotes," he declared.

[thatwaslucky]

"How do you fend them off while you're doing things like climbing? I cannot figure it out," Rey said as she came back over.

[sith_happened]

"Using the Force," Anakin said. "Push them away and buy yourself some time."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey paused.

"That really should have occurred to me."

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned. "You're under stress and not used to thinking of it. Using the Force has to become like breathing--instinctive."

[thatwaslucky]

"Some of it is. Other things I have to think about," Rey said. "Or maybe overthink."

Duke couldn't say she didn't listen.