Editing Nika Earhart (section)

=Personality=

Nika's an interesting dichotomy. On the one hand, she's a fighter -- she's perfectly capable in the role of soldier and pilot. She can ride horses with the best of them, is a good shot with rifles, pistols, and a bow and arrow, and enjoys the more rough and tumble aspects of life. On the other hand, there is the softer side of her -- the more feminine. It's a side that few see -- the part of her that enjoys dressing up, dancing, flirting, and just being a 'girl' (whatever THAT really means). She is also only truly at home in the Black.

[[Image:NikaS05.jpg|175px x 175px|thumb|left|Nika Earhart]]

<i>High Flight</i>

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth<br>
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;<br>
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth<br>
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things<br>
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung<br>
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there<br>
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung<br>
My eager craft through footless halls of air.<br>
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,<br>
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace<br>
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -<br>
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod<br>
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,<br>
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.<br>

(Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee, 
No 412 squadron, RCAF; 
Killed 11 December 1941)