Dorm Gym, Late Sunday Afternoon

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Practice makes perfect, so Cally was actually putting effort into this whole 'being able to defend herself' thing. After her visit to the second floor common room, and moving some stuff up to her new room on the fifth floor, she changed into a tanktop and shorts, and came down to the gym in attempts to give the punching bag a good solid thrashing.

In honest terms, it was more of a half-decent thumping. Nothing to the level of violence that could condone the use of the word 'thrashing'. She was trying her best, at least. And she was managing to not hurt herself, which is probably the best thing to say about it.

[ooc: Open. Verily.]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

After hauling his things back up to the dorms, Walter found himself quite restless. He didn't feel like staying in his room to stare at the faces on his corkboard, or wander past a common room where no one was anyway.

So, the gym. The apparent difference in Walter's gym attire from his normal attire was the shoes. In deference to the gym floor, he was wearing black running shoes rather than his dress shoes.

He came in and spotted Cally in her bag thrashing efforts. "Hey."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally stopped hitting the back and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Heeeey," she said. "How's the eye?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Correctable. I saw an ophthalmologist on Friday, and I should have a contact lens coming sometime this week." He bent double over his knees and spoke toward the floor. "Until then, I can still hit things that don't move."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally chuckled. "So that's you saying you're not up for a spar? Though, really, to be honest, I don't think I'm up for that, yet."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, not a good idea. No sparring, no wire use. I'm not Pip to know how to work with the bad depth perception and I am terribly out of practice." He straightened up and started stretching his hamstrings.

"I didn't know you sparred at all."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Workin' on it," Cally said. "Figured since I'm gonna end up enlisting and all, I oughta get a headstart on basic and stuff."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Enlisting in your home's military?" Walter looked interested. "Is it for your world's defense, or are you actively at war."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Haven't had a war for a few decades," Cally said with a smile. "I'd only be joining to pay for dental school, actually."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Dental school?" Walter asked. That was... "I suppose I never really thought about the fact that people still need dentists on other planets."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well, yeah," Cally said, shaking out her hands. "I still got teeth, you know. We all do."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It makes sense." He moved on with his stretches while they talked. "You'd think if we can get people to other planets, we can come up with a way to make our teeth brush themselves."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Where's the fun in that?" Cally said, now jogging in place a little to keep the momentum up. "Or am I just crazy in the fact that I like brushing my teeth?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Possibly," Walter said and grinned at her. "It's better than get-an-axe-and-cut-down-someone's-door-to-terrorize-them crazy."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"That sort of thing? Never crosses my mind," Cally said, grinning back at Walter. "My crazy is usually of the more fun sort."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It sounds as though you've had a gentler life, then," Walter said, almost jealous. "And fun is, well, fun."

He straightened up and pointed to the bag. "Are you still using it?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"I can take a break," Cally said. "Want me to hold it for you? I'd be happy to."