The gym, Thursday night

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It's been a pretty quiet day all around, and Aeryn spent a good part of it shopping. Which means she heads down to the gym when she has a chance, because that is much more normal.

She puts on her gloves and starts in on the bag again.


[Open. Because I'm not used to being done playing at 8 pm.]

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Rory wandered in, tugging on her newly-arrived fencing gloves.

And instead of picking up a foil, she headed towards a bag.

She needed to hit something.

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Aeryn watches for a moment, asking, "You all right?"

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"Not really," Rory said, waving fairly cheerfully. "I remembered that one time when I was frustrated and you showed me how to hit stuff and I figured I'd try again."

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She goes to offer her gloves, then sees that Rory has her own. "What happened?"

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"Okay, so here's the thing. If someone says they're going to be gone for a certain amount of time, and then they're gone for a lot longer, when do you start to worry?" Rory asked, starting in on a bag with weak, half-hearted punches.

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Aeryn's pretty sure she can make a guess about this one. "That depends. How long was he supposed to be gone?" she asks.

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"A day. Maybe two."

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"If he said he'd be back, he'll be back," Aeryn says.

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Rory shrugged and kept hitting the bag, getting a little more forceful.

"I'm just worried. It's scary." She sighed. "So, how are you?"

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Aeryn keeps watching what Rory's doing, mostly because she doubts Rory has gotten in a lot of practice since the last time. "Don't worry," she says, but otherwise drops it. "I'm all right. Between shopping and movies, I'm glad to be back in here."

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"Shopping was fun!" Rory said brightly before hitting totally wrong and wincing as the tendons in her wrist tugged the wrong way. "I got really cute shoes. They're red."

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"Watch yourself," Aeryn says automatically. "It's... good that you got shoes." She knows nothing about talking about shoes.

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Jamie walks in and waves hi at Rory and Aeryn. True he worked out earlier today...

Or did he?

"Hey guys!"

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"I have no other red shoes," she said. "Lots of blue and black. I'm thinking boldness is good."

She nodded, going back to gingerly hitting the bag.

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Aeryn gives him a wave. "Hi," she says.

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"I have white shoes, they're pointy and uncomfortable," she says. "I'm very bad at this kind of talk, you realize."

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"So are you up for another culture-fest next week?"

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"What did you have in mind?" she asks. "That was a long movie."

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"Yeah, you're not as bad as you think. And it's not as though I offered to French braid your hair or have a mani/pedi party," Rory pointed out.

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"I'm thinking something shorter. Like TV Shows. They are only an hour long. Have you ever seen Crime and Punishment?"

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"Hi," Rory said, waving and flicking her hair off her face. "I'm hitting things!"

He may have missed that part, you see.

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"Is that something you normally don't do?"

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Molly was bored. For no reason other than she thought it might be empty, she went down to the gym. She thought about leaving again when she saw people there. But, it wasn't crowded so she decided to stay.

After waving to the others in the room, she went over to the weight and began loading up one of the bars with as many weights as it would hold.

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"Do I look like someone who hits things?"

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"It's like you're speaking an entirely different language," says Aeryn. And it's funny. Because technically...