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"Anders," he says with a slightly self-conscious smile, "TA for Professor MacLeod in gym. Which sounds kind of funny, I know."

He watches with interest for a while as she hovers on the broom before saying, "So that's how you manage to keep up with a pretty busy delivery service by yourself, huh? This girl way back before the beginning of the semester was telling me about a sport where she comes from that's played on brooms. Said she was a witch. Are you one too? Not that I'm assuming or anything, I just, um, yeah."

"Nice to meet you," Kiki grins, waggling her arms again to keep from toppling over. "I'm actually a witch-in-training. It'll be another 2 years before I can be called a witch. The broom makes deliveries so much easier and faster. It's a lot easier to keep your balance when it's moving. Kind of like a bicycle that way. And I think I know the game you're talking about - Quidditch, right? Harry told me about it, and so did Tonks over at Wonka's Candy Shoppe. I've never seen it played, though."

Kiki slowly lets the broom descend and puts her feet down on the ground.

"Yeah, I bet you cut through all the traffic that way. Not that we have much actual traffic here, but wow, shortcuts." Anders snaps his fingers and makes a mental note of the fact that someone at Wonka's also knows about this game. Someone else to possibly grill about it! "Quidditch! That's it, yeah. It sounded really cool."

He looks at the broom, trying not to peer too closely. "Do you have to be a witch, or a witch-in-training, to be able to ride it?"

"I don't even have to worry about traffic," Kiki grins. "I just go over the roofs! There was some brief talk about getting the fliers together for a game - but I haven't seen Harry around, nor Draco. Pretty much leaves Tonks and myself. Oh, and Draco's girlfriend, if she's still here."

Kiki holds out the broom for him to look at. "It definitely helps to have the witchcraft in your blood, although I somehow managed to get Rogue off the ground a short distance last semester when Harry, Draco and I brought our brooms to Flight Club. I haven't been back to it this semester - too many mechanical gizmos! I invariably crashed all the flight simulators."

"Yeah, I think it was Draco's girlfriend who was telling me about it, and I haven't seen her since. Kind of too bad, since she did offer to show me some books about Quidditch, with moving pictures, she said, and I never got around to looking at them."

Anders shoves his hands into his pockets, almost as if he's afraid to touch the broom and maybe mess it up or something, but he does come closer to look at the broom. "I'd probably crash if I tried anyway," he admits. "My girlfriend thinks I'd hurt myself if I tried to play Quidditch. And y'know, I don't think she's been to Flight Club this semester either 'cause there's nothing for her to fix."

"Cally, right?" Kiki asks. "I remember her - I haven't seen her since Flight Club last semester, come to think of it. You can take a closer look at the broom, if you like," Kiki offers. "To most, it really is just an ordinary broom. I made this one myself, so it's most in tune with me, but I can fly just about anything - sweepers, push brooms, mops if there's nothing else. This one, however, has a little of my magic in it, so people who aren't magical themselves can fly it a very little."

Anders nods and grins a little bit. "Yeah, that's her. She's got a thing about me doing things where I might hurt myself, or something," he says, unable to hold back a little chuckle at the thought of a flying mop. He gingerly touches the handle with one finger, almost surprised to find that it really does appear to be a perfectly normal broom. "So norm--non-magical people could kind of fly it, but they couldn't fly it as well as you, right? Was it hard to make?"

"Well, Rogue was able to get it off the ground," Kiki nods. "I don't know how well they'd be able to control it, honestly. It took about a day to make - I made one for Tonks back in the fall."

"Is getting it off the ground more than most people managed?" He scrunches his face up a bit in thought. "Bet it's more than I'd manage. I've got enough trouble with forward, backward, left and right, let alone up and down."

Kiki laughs. "Only a few tried my broom, since I showed up late. Rogue was the only one who managed it, though."

"Wonder why that is?" Anders mused absently, still looking the broom over and boggling over its perfectly normal appearance. "I remember she had special powers, or something. Think it had anything to do with that?"

[OOC: Meep. Got busy at work, and then errands to run, sorry!]

Kiki shrugged. "Maybe," she said thoughtfully. "The problem is, flying is so natural to me that I have a tough time trying to explain just how I do it. I guess it's a matter of will, but in addition you really have to find the joy in it. The delight of soaring is really what will take you up."

"I think I get that," he says. "My Pyramid coach in high school used to tell us that we had to want to win. But I always thought, y'know, if you don't love playing the game, then wanting to win by itself isn't gonna do you any good."

Kiki grins. "You know, that is a really good analogy! I never thought of it that way. Probably because I've never actually really played any sports of competitive games like that."

"And I've never flown a broom, so I guess we're even there," Anders replies with a grin. "Though now that I think about it, I don't think flying's my thing. Might be happier on the ground."

"I don't think about it much, but it does kind of require a level of..." Kiki hunts for the word. "Insanity? To go cavorting around on a broom without a safety net or a seat belt or anything like that. There are advantages to walking!"

"There's no seat belt?" Anders stares for a moment. "Oh, wait, duh. 'course there isn't."

He runs a hand through his hair and chuckles. "Except for the part where it's a lot slower, yeah."

"There is that," Kiki admits with a grin.

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