Second floor common room, early Sunday afternoon

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When Cassandra was feeling restless, she usually found somewhere quiet to work out. Today, however, she felt like she needed a change.

Which was why she'd moved some of the furniture around in what looked to be a pretty random arrangement. Seats facing in all sorts of directions did not, after all, make a lot of sense for most purposes.

It might have made slightly more sense for what Cassandra was doing, which involved moving in random directions around the room without touching the floor.

Conversation might actually be a less disruptive form of entertainment.

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

On her way back from a long walk, River peeked inside the second floor common room, and the rearranging caught her attention. Quietly she entered the room, then leapt up to stand on one of the chairs, smiling at Cassandra.

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Cassandra grinned back as she saw River balanced there. She raised an eyebrow in challenge and leaped from her own perch on the back of a couch onto a chair herself.

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A jump sideways and River was now standing on another chair, arms stretched out. She looked at Cassandra, expectin another move.

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Easy enough. With a smirk Cassandra launched herself up into a forward flip and landed on the chair River had just vacated.

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River mirrored the action, ending up on Cassandra's previous chair.

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Another high leap sent Cassandra into a backflip which ended with her balanced carefully on one foot on the back of her chair. She lifted one eyebrow at River as if challenging her to do something more difficult, since she had no doubt the other girl could manage the flip.

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny happened to be walking by the second floor common room and noticed it looked...a little different. So she stopped to take a second look. "What the hell?"

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River could, but just to tease Cassandra she took an easy step on to the next chair, then tilted her head, grinning, before flipping backwards.

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A short laugh escaped Cassandra as she stepped simply to the chair next to her and she shook her head in mock disappointment.

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Cassandra was just landing to carefully balance on the back of one of the chairs. She turned as Jenny came in, "Oh, hi. I'm not... in the way am I?"

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River made a handstand move on to the couch and then a flip back on to her feet on to a chair.

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That was more like it. Cassandra took a quick look around, trying to judge the best route for... A similar handstand flip off the couch to land with her legs split between two different chairs.

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"No, of course not," Jenny told her. "It's not even my common room. Do bizarre things as you will."

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A quick leap and Cassandra moved to the back of a different chair. "So, how have you been? Haven't... talked to you in a while."

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Rubbing her bleary eyes a little (she had been up way too late last night doing more tax reports and stock projections), Turtle wandered into the common room for a late lunch and blinked at what the other girl in the room was doing. Her head tilted thoughtfully for a moment before she, herself, was climbing up on the back of one of the chairs.

"Are we playing 'The Floor is Lava?'" she asked excitedly, her tongue sticking out a little before attempting to make the slightly wobbling step toward another chair. She loved this game, but always got yelled at at home for climbing on the furniture.

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"Um..." Cassandra eyed the other girl for a moment as she tried to figure out what the question was. Then she grinned suddenly, "I... guess we are." She leaped nimbly to the back of a nearby couch.

"Er, hi?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River could do that too. With another handstand on the backrest of the couch she flipped onto the backrests to two chairs.

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Turtle grinned a little, though her eyes were mainly focused downward as she tried to find the balance with waving arms before settling on an end table. "You're really good!" she commented. "Moving the furniture around like this was a great idea. You don't have to end up throwing down as many couch cushions or magazines this way."

Once confident in her footing on the end table, Turtle looked Cassandra's way. "And hi back!"

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Every time she encountered River, Cassandra suspected more and more that there's very little, if anything, she could do that the other girl couldn't. That didn't stop her from trying, of course.

She kicked herself up and over into a cartwheel off the chair to her right which she turned into a flip onto the back of another chair where she immediately pushed back into a twisting flip to land holding herself up by one hand on the back of a chair carefully titled back onto two legs. The chair wobbled a bit back and forth as she held the pose.

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"Lots of practice," Cassandra explained as she bounced up into a low flip before landing on the back of the couch. She flashed Turtle a quick grin, "I'm Cassandra."

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"And I'm..." Turtle may have had a slightly slacked jaw after watching the little flip, "...really hoping you're not expecting me to be able to play quite at that level."

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Cassandra snorted a short laugh, "Um... I hope not?" Getting as good as she was wasn't something Cassandra was about to wish on anyone considering how it had happened. "I really had a lot of... practice growing up."

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River let out a laugh, happy and playful. She didn't change chair this time, but put one foot on the backrest and let it balance on two legs.

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Cassandra grinned back, then frowned. How, precisely, was she going to get out of her current pose? The chair wobbled a bit more as she considered her options, shooting a glance at River every so often to see if the other girl had a suggestion.

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Turtle, rather oblivious to Cassandra's meaning, nodded a little. "I see. I didn't get to practice much..." she paused a little, prepping herself for an overly dramatic leap over a very tiny space, "'cause they didn't like it when I climbed on the furniture. My name, though, is Turtle. Good to meet you, Cassandra; I recognize your name a little from radio!"