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Driver's Ed.
"Pull out into traffic carefully, Anakin," Obi-Wan said, clutching the speeder door with one hand and his seat with the other. He was belted in tightly, and his feet were braced against the floor.
"This is way easier than piloting a pod racer, Master," Anakin replied, grinning wildly as he gripped the steering wheel, bouncing in his seat.
Obi-Wan looked at the boy beside him. He had to get used to driving speeders instead of pod racers, and navigating the clogged skylanes of Coruscant, rather than the open dunes of Tatooine. Anakin, still a young padawan, was barely tall enough to see properly over the steering column.
"Slowly, Anakin," he repeated, trying to sound firm.
"I will, Master," Anakin insisted, shifting gears and, slowly, pulling up to the edge of the parking area. He paused, lifted himself up in his seat, and looked both ways. Obi-Wan breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps this wouldn't be entirely horrifying.
"Now, pull out and join the rest of the traffic."
"Got it."
Anakin went though the proper procedures, checking the navigational computer, his altitude limiter, his speed governor, and switching on his turn signal, before looking again for an opening in the flow of traffic. Once one came along, he eased out into the lane.
Obi-Wan relaxed back into his seat. That wasn't so bad. Actually, that was fairly good. Anakin was a very good pilot, after all, he just needed to know when to slow down. Know his limits. And how much Obi-Wan could take before he went into cardiac arrest. That was all. He could handle this. He breathed a sigh of relief, closing his eyes and thanking the Force for small miracles.
SNAP.
His head jerked back, slamming against the headrest, as the speeder lurched forward. "Anakin!"
The boy was grinning with manic glee, darting from one lane to another. "This is great, Master! I think I figured out a shortcut!"
They took a nosedive.
Obi-Wan clung to the door and his seat as the lower levels of Coruscant rushed up to meet them.
If he didn't die of a heart attack first, the boy was going to be the death of him.
I have no idea what age people start driving in the GFFA, but if Anakin is driving the Star Wars equivalent of race cars when he's seven...this can't be much worse.
~Queen