Yes, yes, Ayumu-san... here's another teaser for you:
There's making allowances for a young teenager's emotions, and then there's letting a young teenager get away with insulting someone she'd just met. I had to come up with some way to get Nadia to rein in her suspicious nature before she baselessly insulted somebody who isn't as forgiving as I am.
But not now. Right now, Jean was holding on for dear life as I drove down the beach at 30 MPH. "Sir ... can you slow down, please?"
"Jean, we're below 50 km/h." Barely. "You have to have gone faster than this in your aircraft."
"That was in the air! You can't hit anything in the air!"
Slowing down even more would make it silly to have taken the bike, so I decided to use the other method to calm Jean down. "Okay, Jean. Going up!" I switched on the antigrav unit and took us up a dozen feet.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I landed and shut the bike down, and turned around to look at my passenger. He was breathing heavily and was white as a sheet. "Jean. Jean! It's okay -- we're stopped, and on the ground."
"Thank you, sir."
"I'm sorry, Jean. I didn't take you for the type who'd be afraid of speed, or heights."
He shook his head. "I'm not. But I was startled when the motor-cycle felt like it was flat on the ground when it was going up on an angle. How did it do that?"
Jean didn't know enough gravitation theory to understand the full answer to his question, so I gave him the layman's oversimplification. "You remember that I mentioned there's a device in here that creates a standing graviton wave?" Once he nodded, I added, "It also gives the bike its own horizon plane. On this bike, *that* way -" I pointed directly away from the seat. "- is *always* 'up'."
Jean was either calm or over-awed by the bike's tech. "Incredible! Such a device must be a gift from God!"
"One of the gods, yes. Ready to go again?"
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
There's making allowances for a young teenager's emotions, and then there's letting a young teenager get away with insulting someone she'd just met. I had to come up with some way to get Nadia to rein in her suspicious nature before she baselessly insulted somebody who isn't as forgiving as I am.
But not now. Right now, Jean was holding on for dear life as I drove down the beach at 30 MPH. "Sir ... can you slow down, please?"
"Jean, we're below 50 km/h." Barely. "You have to have gone faster than this in your aircraft."
"That was in the air! You can't hit anything in the air!"
Slowing down even more would make it silly to have taken the bike, so I decided to use the other method to calm Jean down. "Okay, Jean. Going up!" I switched on the antigrav unit and took us up a dozen feet.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I landed and shut the bike down, and turned around to look at my passenger. He was breathing heavily and was white as a sheet. "Jean. Jean! It's okay -- we're stopped, and on the ground."
"Thank you, sir."
"I'm sorry, Jean. I didn't take you for the type who'd be afraid of speed, or heights."
He shook his head. "I'm not. But I was startled when the motor-cycle felt like it was flat on the ground when it was going up on an angle. How did it do that?"
Jean didn't know enough gravitation theory to understand the full answer to his question, so I gave him the layman's oversimplification. "You remember that I mentioned there's a device in here that creates a standing graviton wave?" Once he nodded, I added, "It also gives the bike its own horizon plane. On this bike, *that* way -" I pointed directly away from the seat. "- is *always* 'up'."
Jean was either calm or over-awed by the bike's tech. "Incredible! Such a device must be a gift from God!"
"One of the gods, yes. Ready to go again?"
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012