ten_fwd | Practice makes Perfect

"Tails."
"Tails."
"Tails."
It didn't take an astute observer to realize she wasn't just beating the odds of probability, she was calling them correctly before they landed. Time, after time, after time. The coin she was flipping might look familiar to any Andromeda crew still on board. Dylan had given it to her, back when she was purple. And still had a tail. It was a fun game she played. Messing with the right influence at the right time. Only this time it was with a coin and not people. That way Dylan wouldn't get mad at her.

He didn't understand. How could he, he was organic, mortal, trapped within his own limited perceptions and understanding. Still, that was part of the reason she needed him. He wasn't just any ordinary mortal. She needed him. All the possibilities, all the best possibilities, circled around him. She just had to get him to understand her methods were necessary. He needed to trust her. "Tails."
"Tails."
Trance flipped the coin onto the back of her hand, the motion practiced and almost boring. "Tails."

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Yuna watched as she flipped the coin hearing the boring droll as she called each side. It was amazing, practice but it felt like something more. Something the ex summoner couldn't put a finger on. She walked up making sure that her presence was known before speaking.

"Your really good at that." It was a statement more than a compliment. "You must have practiced a lot."

Trance looked at her, still flipping the coin, still landing tails. "For a very, very long time, yes." Probablity was a funny thing, you had to account for all sorts of oddities and events in the time stream. Sometimes, the littlest thing would change events, other times, it would have no effect.

"Yes...very long."

Yuna's eyebrow rose at that response. She can't help but wonder.

"Why?"

It didn't seem silly but it was an odd thing to do. There must be a reason behind it and Yuna wasn't the sort to keep her questions to herself.

"Probability is an interesting concept. Being able to judge what might happen, could happen and would happen is a useful skill. Being able to separate different currents of influence."

Trance held up the coin. "What do you think would need to happen in order for this coin to land tails side up?" She asked Yuna.

Yuna took a minute to think about it. "Well, it would rotate right? first heads up, then heads down but it all depends on the force you use."

She imagined the coin flipping in her mind as she tried to describe it. It was weird but she imagined if you knew the correct force to apply then you could control how it landed.

"But what if you could account for external forces? The breeze, the weight of the coin, the gravitation force exerted onto it?"

Trance asked, idly, wondering how a human would take to a situation like this.

Yuna watched the coin thinking. She could control all those things as well as feel them around her, it wouldn't be so hard to take them into account.

"I suppose it would be easy to know then, where the coin is going to fall."

Trance smiled at Yuna, as she finally understood. "Yes, yes it would." A coin, a person, a flea. It was all the same wasn't it?

"There."

Yuna smiled. "I guess a lot of things are like that." She thought back to the power that she had been given and it's potential. It was a little to relevant to this conversation to just ignore it.

"Could you know everything then? If you know all the pieces or can control them?" Her head tilted to the side and Yuna looked very thoughtful.

"No, there are too many pieces, some can't be seen. You can never control for everything. Sometimes you can't see any of the possibilities. They key is knowing what to control when you have a limited amount of time in order to make that decision."

Of course limited amount of time from Trance's point of view was completely different from Yuna's.

"Guess so." Yuna smiled at the woman. "Thank you."

She was going to keep trying as always but it was something else to think about. Yuna loved listening to others points of view.

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