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Excerpt from Mouse Wing Trainee Evaluation Report completed by Trainer Sam<\/em><\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb is a bright and eager trainee. For a greenie she shows remarkable potential. She is already way ahead of the learning curve when it comes to plotting courses and reading astronomical charts. She has an excellent paw when it comes to guiding her bird steed. More important, she\u2019s eager to log as many flight hours as possible.<\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb\u2019s assigned steed is Popkin. She shows remarkable patience with him. Personally, he drives me nuts. Zo\u00eb is the only mouse who seems to be able to keep Popkin focused on the task at hand. I normally recommend that greenies fly with different avian steeds, but given the close rapport that Zo\u00eb and Popkin have already developed I think it would be a waste of time to saddle her with any other bird.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noted a tendency for Trainee Zo\u00eb to rely a little too heavily on her mentors\u2019 expertise when flying. It is my recommendation that Trainee Zo\u00eb be given a solo mission sooner rather than later to test her capabilities and see what she can do on her own.<\/p>\n

Carja\u2019s Notes<\/em><\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb is from the third of a series of \u201cbirthday\u201d stories I wrote this year. I\u2019ve long been a fan of the name Zo\u00eb and have used it on occasion in other stories I\u2019ve written (always with the umlaut over the \u2018e\u2019). The friend I wrote the story for enjoys creating World of Warcraft characters whose names begin with the letter \u2018z\u2019 so I decided to use Zo\u00eb as a nod to that fact. My friend is also big time into astronomy, which is why Zo\u00eb has a telescope with her in the story.<\/p>\n

I love Popkin! He was just so much fun to write. For the Funnies I decided to reduce his vocabulary to one word. In the original story, he\u2019s obsessed with pickles as well, but he\u2019s able to hold a conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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