Gym - Early Morning Thursday.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter was certainly not making sure he was out of the room before his roommate woke up, no. He always gets up this early.

He stumbled into the gym wearing his tunic and leggings and found a rattan practice sword in one of the cupboards. No shield or partner, but he could practice as well by himself.

After stretching out completely, he moved onto some of the mats and started working through old footwork drills.


OOC: Open for all your gym-going needs.

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[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn had gotten up very early in the morning and had gone for a run outside. After she had returned to the dorms, she had done even more exploring. She heard sounds coming from one of the rooms and poked her head in. Then she smiled.

"Good morning."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter stopped mid-chain step and grinned.

"Gwynn! I was rather hoping you'd be up early. Want to come work out?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn smiled back at him.

"Hi, Peter! I'm always up early." She came over to him. "I'd love to work out. I think yesterday was the first day in a long time that I haven't done so."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"For me as well. I figured I'd ought to get up early today and shake the cobwebs off. Did your armsmaster ever tell you that skipping two days sets one back more than a week?" Peter rolled his eyes.

"I think there are more practice swords over there if you wanted to warm up for a bit then we could spar?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn laughed. "Friar Tuck often would say things like that... and the warnings would get more and more outrageous."

She headed over to get a practice sword to work with -- much relieved that the principal seemed to think the wooden practice weapons were alright. She could stay in practice this way and not accidentally hurt anyone.

"So how did your first day go?" she asked as she started going through one of the sword dance routines she had learned from Tuck and his monks.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter continued with his own warmup watching Gwynn out of the corner of one eye. Her routine looked more fluid than the straight forward step combination taught to him by the centaurs.

"Combination of the mundane and completely unexpected - which seems to be par for the course at Fandom. Signed up for summer workshops, spent some time in town talking to people, ended up in the common room in the evening. And between times? Found out my sister is in Fandom. My little sister - who's now my older sister." Peter concentrated on his steps. "What about you?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn was also watching Peter's warm up out of the corner of her eye and she wondered if he could teach her that. It would definitely come in handy against those that weren't expecting that kind of movement in battle. Will and Tuck would be so proud of her for noticing other techniques to adapt into battle.

"I met a young man who creates music, a girl who cooks something called pancakes, a horse that lives in the dorms and loves to be petted and scritched... oh, and my roommate showed me how to use one of those talking devices."

Then her mind caught up with her ears.

"Wait... your younger sister is here and now she's your older sister?"

Gwynn wasn't sure she heard right.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Second morning in a row that someone beat him to the gym. This is getting scary. "Yo!"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked at the new arrival in confusion as she tried to decided what he had just said. Deciding that it must be his way of saying hello, and wondering if he was out of time, too, she smiled a little.

"Uhmm... yo."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"New here?" Cameron asked a bit unncessary. "I'm Cam."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn nodded. "I'm Gwynn. I got here two days ago... I think? The day of the big party."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I saw the invasion," he smiled. "Nice to meet you, Gwynn."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

And lo we see that Gwynn tends to take things that are said quite seriously.

"Invasion?" She stopped her work out and looked at Cam with some concern. "Are we in need of warriors to defend from invaders?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Uh, not at the moment. I think," Cameron looked around. "I didn't hear an announcement anyway. I just meant that there were a lot of new students at the welcome party."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"G'morning," Peter said with a smile.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron nodded at the boy. "I'm Cam," he introduced himself.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Peter Pevensie." He bowed slightly. "And I have a feeling we're taking over your gym."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Sort of," Cameron chuckled. "Normally I can count on one hand who I might run in to here, but it's good that other people are taking an interest. Keeps things alive."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Sure, but when one's hoping for a quiet salle in the morning, it's less positive. Least that's what I've found whenever we had visitors taking over Cair Paravel."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordelia woke up early and headed straight to the gym. She nodded at Cam and glanced briefly at the new students before heading to a punching bag.

It had been awhile since she really trained, but she was giving it her all.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter paused his swordwork for a moment to bow at the new arrival.

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordelia smiled, because she appreciates cute boys with swords who bow at her.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

After finishing his swordwork, Peter walked over to the punching bag. "Would you like someone to hold the bag for you, or are you of the no-bag-holding camp?"

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordelia paused for a moment and pushed a strand of hair out of her eye.

"Suit yourself," she said.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter raised an eyebrow. And positioned himself behind the heavy bag to steady it. "I'm Peter Pevensie"