Who: Vasily & Open Where: Hologym, open session When: Friday evening
With his limiter cuff off, he opened the program in the hologym. It wasn't one of his normal 'kill them all' selections, it was actually a very simple program of a field. It reminded him of vacations at his grandparents when he was a child. It was also the perfect place to get a feel for some of the new shapes he'd learned. In the field he'd generated a tree and some other items he could interact with, such as a wall, a ball, some rocks. It wasn't very imaginative, but it wasn't supposed to be. It was functional.
As he entered and the doors shut Vasily broke into a run and then he was flying as a peregrine took the place of the man and took flight. Oh Vasya loved to fly, it was so freeing. Now, it had taken him time. He'd watched the birds fly and could feel their shape but actually doing the act had been a lot of trial and error. Like a baby bird falling repeatedly out of the nest. Now, it was like second nature. After a bit of flying he landed on the tree and changed into a jaguar. Now cat's were fun, they had a 'bouncy' quality to them. Very nimble on their feet. Walking to near the edge of the branch he crouched and lined up his shot before leaping from the tree, with a span that reached about 20 feet, he landed atop the wall with grace.
The cat sat on the wall and groomed itself... okay so many the animal instincts came on too strong sometimes. Dropping down carefully from the wall, he shifted again to a gorilla. Oh, it felt strange. He'd never transformed into a primate before and this one was large. He moved his arms and stretched out, feeling every muscle as if wearing a new suit. He moved, over to the ball, walking with his knuckles as many primates do. He slipped his large hand over the ball and got a feel for the way it felt in his fingers and hand. He tossed it in the air a couple times, trying to catch it, making sure his motor skills were okay, and on the third toss he ended up hitting the ball instead. It flew away and rolled across the grass, coming to the stop at someone's feet.
The gorilla looked at his guest and approached slowly, his whole hand gesturing to the ball.