[The next day, the drills went on as expected. The Okinawa squadron made a good showing of itself; despite limited resources, they performed well in a series of coordination drills and a couple of attack run simulations that left huge concrete targets washed in dark green paint. Asuna didn't kid when she said she could get them organized.]
[Of course, she also undersold herself. It's no secret that, in a vacuum, a Coordinator is a better pilot than a Natural, even if combat computers had helped to shorten that distance a lot. The best Natural pilots were men and women like Mu La Flaga: skilled veterans, who could use state of the art OSes to bridge the gap. Asuna proved a strange exception: despite only being seventeen, she carried her squadron with the Windam Fleuret. She probably could have given La Flaga a run for his money, if their machines were comparable.]
[Now that the drills are over, she's sitting in the hangar, on the catwalk leading to the Fleuret's cockpit. Her legs dangle over the railing, and she has a juice packet in one hand, which she drinks with a straw. She wipes the sweat from her brow and sighs with relief.]
[Job well done, she thinks. She just has to see what the Orb Admiral thinks of her work.]
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[Of course, she also undersold herself. It's no secret that, in a vacuum, a Coordinator is a better pilot than a Natural, even if combat computers had helped to shorten that distance a lot. The best Natural pilots were men and women like Mu La Flaga: skilled veterans, who could use state of the art OSes to bridge the gap. Asuna proved a strange exception: despite only being seventeen, she carried her squadron with the Windam Fleuret. She probably could have given La Flaga a run for his money, if their machines were comparable.]
[Now that the drills are over, she's sitting in the hangar, on the catwalk leading to the Fleuret's cockpit. Her legs dangle over the railing, and she has a juice packet in one hand, which she drinks with a straw. She wipes the sweat from her brow and sighs with relief.]
[Job well done, she thinks. She just has to see what the Orb Admiral thinks of her work.]