Aerial Aces Park has sky obstacle courses, a person-catapult, a big clock, starting blocks very high off the ground, heat lamps pointing up for updrafts, and other such fun things.

Really cool. She pays admission quite happily, if they charge it.

It probably has a lot of magical people flying around, of all sorts of different aesthetics, right?

They do! And it does! There's a bunch of girls talking with their coach, in what passes for a uniform among magical girls (all the same three colors, same hemline and neckline); there's girls threading through the obstacles on all kinds of wings; there's girls flying laps, practicing landing softly and turning quickly with the starting blocks. There is a short line for the catapult.

This is really her kind of place. Practicing landings seems very practical, but the quick turning is probably some kind of sport?

She watches for a little while and then goes to the starting blocks to try it, cheerfully saying 'hi' if there's anyone it makes sense to say hi to.

"Yo," says a girl with falcon wings and a lot of tulle who's pausing to chug a bottle of water between batches of laps. "Do we need to laneshare?"

"Yo. Maybe? It's my first time here, I'm seeing what there is. I, uh, had a bad landing a few days ago so I thought practicing landings on these would be good."

"They're good for that. Shouldn't get in my way, I can just take breaks on this end and you can land on that end, and I'm using the sides for turns."

"Sounds like a plan. Thanks!"

She takes off towards the far block and climbs, circles, and starts doing landings, practicing sudden stops and gently touching down via wing flare. She's careful to stay above the blocks and not get in the way.

She looks around and observes how people use the other parts of the air park while lining up for each attempt.

The ones with the coach are doing relays. The obstacle course has a bunch of parts, color coded, and people are doing different colors or combinations thereof.

And the catapult is pretty self explanatory.

Do the colors seem to correspond to difficulty? Or maybe types of obstacle?

The fliers who look the best at flying seem to be doing black, or black and purple, and an eight year old is doing the pink one.

Aww, a winged eight year old. That's surprisingly cute.

Take off, circle, land.

She looks around some more. There are so many incredibly pretty and athletic people here.

...At some point, while staring slightly, she remembers that getting magic makes you gay, and recognizes those feelings about Jodie from the school club.

...Take off, circle, land.

She's not gonna say anything. Every time she tried to approach a boy, it was a bit of a disaster one way or another. So. Friends only.

After a while she stops trying landings, takes a break and gets a drink from a water fountain, then gets in the line for the catapult. It's a catapult, she has to try it at least once.

The catapult flings people into the air; sometimes they do flips, sometimes they just level out and glide to a land.

The catapult operator tells her this is At Her Own Risk.

Of course, of course.

Catapult!

And then she tries out the obstacle course, thinking better than to go straight for the black section, taking on a part that's somewhere in the middle in terms of difficulty instead.

The yellow might be next easiest after pink. It has widely spaced slalom poles and big hoops and places with a floor and a ceiling to fly through.

Yellow section it is, then. She runs it a few times with her speed-optimized wings, not the maneuvering-optimized ones, because 'next easiest after pink' feels a little too easy by itself.

Is there a sky soccer or Quidditch field, or any of the races she read that the Flock Girls do, around?

They do have Quidditch hoops, and ground markings for races (the relayers are using those), but you have to bring your own balls.

And find a team and an opponent. Maybe next time.

She bounces between the various stations some more and maybe chats with other girls if anyone seems friendly and up for chatting.

The one who was doing turns nods when she sees her again.

She waves!

Next time the other girl takes a break she asks, "Is this place always this busy?"

"No, it calms way down in the rain and it's closed during holidays."

"Eugh. Flying in the rain... No wonder."

"Yup. Some people dig it but not me."

"I can see wanting to be used to it, and know how to fly well in bad weather - for swarm patrol and stuff, I'm gonna go in that direction - but it's really hard to see it being fun. I guess someone likes everything."

"They do. It's weird."