She does some quick research.

I found a form where you can provide your own photo. We can photoshop your ears off. 

(which feels vaguely wrong, she thinks but doesn't say, but she's probably going to have to get used to that)

There's also a written test it turns out. This isn't getting done tomorrow but I can get past any questions that would make a driving instructor suspicious and then help set up lessons?

That would be very helpful, thank you.

Ok! I'll head over around noon.

It's only a half hour later that she realizes that she could probably ask Cocoa for a phone number of someone who 'does' documents of various sorts.

Eh, if it becomes a problem she'll ask.

Regardless, she has dinner, trains a bit more, cleans up, sleeps, has breakfast, trains a bit more, and then heads over to Anna's place in another rental car.

Anna answers the door. "Hey. You wanted to help me study for the written of the driver's test?"

"Yeah. And maybe do a short drive for - common sense stuff that anyone who's ridden in cars for a few years would know, like seatbelts. I'm not thinking of what else there is like that without actually doing it, but yeah."

"Well, come in." 

She steps aside and lets Trys in. "Are there like technique manuals for this or...?"

"Yes. Both online and actual books. They're pretty boring, honestly, but not that complicated. Let me show you on my laptop..."

She finds a table to set it up on. She has a PDF study guide for the road test open, and sticks a wireless mouse usb key in.

Anna scootches up next to her. "Can I just say next page as I read?"

"If you'd rather. Computers are definitely time consuming to learn if you're not used to them. You can also press this button," the down arrow key, "To go down and this one to go up."

"Okay." She reaches over and starts skimming through the document. "Seems pretty straightforward."

"-Right, I'm getting quicker. It makes sense that would... Keep happening. Hm. The realities on the road are a bit different from the official rules, mind."

"Aren't they always? But I have you to teach me."

"Mmhm." She stands off to the side, watching. "And it's also something that just takes a bit of experience. The difference between reading a technique and actually training with it."

"Of course." She nods, still flicking through the slides of the learner's manual. Her tail twitches back and forth lazily. 

"Tell me what you think about Eight Tails."

"I haven't interacted with her much. I think it's interesting that she's an ascended fox, as I'm, well, part fish I guess. Don't know the details of my own bloodline. She seems generally laid-back and it sounds like she prefers to avoid unnecessary fighting, which is admirable."

"Hmmm. I see. How do you know of her? Silver Starlight's ally?" 

"Yes, part of the group that Black Claw and I are part of. It's not as rigid or official as an ordinary sect, I think, it's not even a sect, not organized that way. Those two and a Senior Red who's coming out of seclusion soon are at the head of the group, though."

"Never heard of her. Strong for a group outside of China - three True Monarchs? Scary." 

She closes the laptop. "I think it's time for you to drive me around."

"Sure. I know a place I know with a big empty parking lot, we can go there and let you practice."

Carwards she goes.

Anna follows along, stuffing her ears into her hat.

She does a short walkaround. This is how you open the trunks, this is how you check tire pressure, here's the gas cap. Same thing on the interior. Locks, radio, turn signal, wipers, etc.

Then they can drive while Trys narrates. She stops for gas and explains that too. And then they're in a big empty parking lot by a superstore that never got finished and now has grass growing up the half-built walls and through cracks in the asphalt.

"My turn?"

"Yep."

She switches over to the passenger seat with a minimal amount of trepidation.

Anna gets in, and goes through all the controls methodically, making sure she understands the functions. She saves the accelerator for last. 

"So just a couple slow turns around the parking lot, yeah?"

"Yes. I bet if you want to try driving on public roads for the real experience we probably wouldn't be caught, but maybe that should wait for an official instructor. I think they have special cars with two sets of brakes just in case or something, and it might be illegal, I'm not sure."