Grounds, Saturday morning-ish

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

It had been a quiet week for Cassandra. Classes had certainly been interesting, and she felt like she was starting to get a handle on the whole reading thing, but what she really wanted was some undiluted physical exertion.

So this morning she woke up early and pulled out one of her old traning suits from her bag. Black wasn't precisely a stealthy during the day, even with the cloud cover, but it was tight so it didn't snag, and kevlar wouldn't tear if she made a misstep and took a bad fall.

After a few minutes to stretch properly, Cassandra took off. Rooftop running, building climbing, three story drops... It was purely physical and, for Cassandra at least, quite relaxing. Besides, it allowed her to get a feel for the layout of the school from a different sort of angle.

[ooc: Open. Please feel free to mod Cassandra to just about anywhere exterior on the grounds.]

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack's window was open as he was getting ready for his first detention. Much grumbling and throwing of clothes ensued.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra was on her way up the side of the dorms when she heard him. She paused briefly. Maybe he was about to reveal more about his nefarious gun plans.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Muttermutter. "Stupid detention. I didn't even do anything!" Mutter. "I was gonna work out, too, make sure the guns look good."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

She still wasn't at all clear what this guns plan was. How was "working out" supposed to make them look good. And who cared if guns looked good as long as they did what they were supposed to do anyway?

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

He pumped his biceps a few times. And posed. And posed a different way. And posed more differently. "They'll be as big as Charge Atlas in no time," he declared. "Ladies love the big guns."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

In Cassandra's experience that was true of only a select, and highly dangerous, class of ladies. Not the kind that she would have expected someone like Jack to care about impressing.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

If only Jack was aware that Cassandra was outside his window he'd invite her in, maybe show her his guns. Or at least wave.

"I tell you, Jack, this hair and these arms? You're a hit!" More posing and measuring his biceps.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Now he was hitting people? Odd, she certainly couldn't hear the sounds of hitting going on. Considering how familiar with them she was, she should have been able to pick it out.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

He sighed. "Ah, hell, Jack. You've been here how long and what have you made for yourself? A big fat nothing. Maybe that's why you got detention." More sigh.

"And Homecoming's coming up soon. Be nice to have a date."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie was sitting in her window seat when she thought she saw something swing by. Frowning, she leaned out the window and looked down.

They never look up, do they?

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Silly humans.

Cassandra freezes out of habit, settling onto the ledge of one of the sixth floor windows. Even when they don't look up, sometimes people catch movement peripherally, after all.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie turned her head from side to side, puzzled, looking for someone peeking out another window, perhaps? "Hello? Is there someone there?" After a minute, with a bit more quaver: "Is there some *thing* there?"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

After a moment of indecision, Cassandra remembered that she wasn't really trying to be sneaky or anything. That life was behind her. So she shifted position slightly and answered. "Just me."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Evie's head jerked up, and she stared wide-eyed at Cassandra. "Hullo! Was that you, earlier? Are you quite safe up there?"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"Pretty safe," she answered. "And... probably me? I did go past your window." Cassandra dropped smoothly from the window she was currently stopped at to the one below it so that she was at the same height as Evie and only one window over.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Ohhhhh heavens, that looks terrifying," Evie said, leaning out still further, riveted by Cassandra's actions. "Are you an acrobat?" Because she couldn't think who else-- well, maybe a trapeze artist-- would be so comfortable up soooo high without a net.



[*facepalm* somehow missed this entirely.]

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"It's fun," Cassandra offers. "It's a challenge."


[ooc: I won't blame you as long as you remember this when, inevitably, I do the same thing. ;)]

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy was out by the small pond on the grounds that the mun did not know about till he saw that map, practicing his katas, blindfolded.

As he went on, they got more elaborate with added jumps and flips and such.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

That was worth a brief pause in her run. Cassandra stopped and settled into a loose stance to watch. She already knew that he was pretty good from the way he moved, but this was a chance to really see him in action. Or something close to it, at least.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy wasn't aware at first of being watched. If he was, he might have been showing off more. But when one of his handsprings took him too close to the edge of the pond, he quickly and smoothly backed up.

Towards Cassie.

sorry for the late post. sp is my middle name the next few days.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra stepped out of the way quickly and smoothly, moving almost silently was second nature, but there was the faint sound of feet brushing across the ground as she made sure that Billy had plenty of room.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy paused, but did not remove his blindfold. "I'm sorry, did I almost bump into you?"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"Nah," she grins, "Just wanted to give you plenty of space."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Preciate that." He smiled, and started moving again. "Cassndra right?"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

She nodded in confirmation.

Then she remembered that he was wearing a blindfold, whoops? "Yeah."