"I thought that you hadn't wanted to talk about your Uncle before, so I'm not going to push the issue any more." Should she have wished to volunteer further information he wasn't going to have stopped her, but for now he also wasn't going to do anything that he feared would make her uncomfortable in any manner.<br/><br/>"Port is left and starboard is right no matter which way you're faced. Ever get into one of those situations where you have to say 'is that my left or your left' or something like that? Using port and starboard prevents us from doing so while we're in the air. It's always going to be your right and left, which I refer to as port and starboard even if I have to turn around."<br/><br/>Tuigalen seemed surprised that she had to ask that. Still, he didn't say anything negative to the effect, though he was distraught that she had then actually brought up the fact that he was able to discern the fact that he wasn't going to show his frustration because of his professionalism.<br/><br/>Before he could say anything, however, he grasped the reigns tightly and tried to turn her around, "Someone's shooting at us; this isn't supposed to be part of the test! Kaida; I'm going to need your breath and I'm going to need you to grow up a lot faster than either of us expected!"<br/><br/>The one positive part about the professional courtesy that she had thought of previously, though, was that he could remain relatively calm under even unusual circumstances like this one. Who, though, would be so brazen as to attack them when they were literally at their home base?<br/><br/>Perhaps it was because so many riders would be deployed that their enemies figured the facility would be undefended for the day.