[OTA...ish] Ground Control to Major Tom...

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

The idea had come to him, honestly, after passing a hobby store on his way back to the Castle from his 'weekend off.' Model rockets. He'd built them and set them off as a boy in Tel Aviv - there'd been a part of the backyard that had permanently been scarred from it, and it was probably the reason he initially ended up in explosives when he entered the IDF - and sometimes it had been the best way to deal with...things. In his case the things had been less an excess of death, and more an excess of his mother's personal kind of living. But it'd also been the 1980s and 1990s in Israel. Actual war with the Arab World was always on the brink, and guerrilla war was always a reality. Sometimes a boy just had to blow off some steam.

Sometimes a girl did too.

He'd taken Eileen back to the store and they'd picked out the rocket they'd wanted, and they'd holed up a couple of times this week together to put it together in the Ace's office, but actual launch had to wait until after the paintball tournament on Saturday, and so late Sunday evening, Elisha picked a good distant spot on the Club grounds.

No need to alert the guards, after all.

[ooc: For Eileen, but open to anyone who wants to watch science at work.]

Comments

sry, moving cross-country! and now unpacking...

[ladyoftheclubs.livejournal.com]

"I just..." worried about her only daughter. Argine sighed. "I suppose you are right, of course."

It's okaaay :)

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't ever let anything happen to her, Your Majesty." Elisha smiled a little bit, folding his hands. "And she needs to get away from the books, sometimes." The books and the weight of everything else.

Re: It's okaaay :)

[ladyoftheclubs.livejournal.com]

"And into things besides tunnels... I suppose the open air will do her good, as well." She sighed.

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

"She's still a girl, Your Majesty," Elisha said after watching Argine for a moment of silence. "She's an excellent Ace, but she's still also a girl, and she needs to do things besides be the Club Ace occasionally." Or when she grew up, she would just have a whole different set of problems.

[ladyoftheclubs.livejournal.com]

Argine nodded. "Yes, and I do try to make sure of that... but must such play be dangerous?" She was still leery of the rockets.

"Well. If she enjoys it."

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

Living, especially in the Deck these days, Elisha thought...was dangerous. Rockets were really nothing compared to that. "She won't be very close when it goes up, my lady," he said, and smiled slightly.

"And she enjoys science."

[ladyoftheclubs.livejournal.com]

"That she does."

"Well. I suppose I have come for no reason at all except for the reassurance a mother needs that her child will not come to harm. Please, return to whatever it was you were doing."

She turned to go.