The salle, early Tuesday morning

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Second day in a row hitting the salle; this time, waiting for Leto, and whatever kind of workout he did.

Dinah did some stretches while she waited, then got out the eskrima and started to give the practice dummy a bad time.

[ooc: for a future emperor, but open for all your truthful confrontational needs]

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[future_sandworm]

Early morning practise was a good way to start the day, once you got out of bed. Leto was curious to see what exercise Dinah was used to, and when he saw she had already got started, he stopped in the doorway, waiting silently before making his presence known.

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Dinah was reminding herself to be careful of her arm-- grr, chicken leg, grr, Arthur-- and trying a more complicated pattern that always made her drop one stick when she finally got it. "Yes! Yay! I rule!"

She might have done that anyway.

Spinning around in glee, she saw Leto on one pass, and grinned at him. "Did you see that? I'm getting it! I'm so glad you saw that!"

[future_sandworm]

He entered the room, smiling back at her. "I saw that," he said. "I'm not familiar with the type of training you're doing."

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Dinah bopped over to him, and held out one stick after a show-off twirl. "It's an eskrima. From the Phillipines. Native warriors used them against invaders with swords and guns, and they didn't win, but they did a damn good job. Arthur showed me swordwork yesterday!"

Um. Okay, that was random.

"Not in a euphemism way. Really. A sword. I was surprised."

[future_sandworm]

"That was generous of him," Leto replied, smirking slightly as he took the stick. He weighed it in his hand, then spun it around, testing the balance. "So now you can show me this." He looked at Dinah, focused on studying her movements.

[not_in_the_book]

It had been a while since Ronan got any sword practice in; he could, in fact, feel his sword calling to him a little bit, wanting to get out, to be used.

So there he was, in the salle. He waved hello to the others, smiling at Dinah -- and then at the hot shirtless boy -- but he didn't want to interrupt their own training. Unless, of course, they invited him to join in.

Not dirty.

... ... Not unless they wanted it to be.

Ronan unsheathed his sword, eying the red-blue-red shimmer that ran up and down the blade before he went to work, starting with a basic form and working his way up to about the limit of his ability. It wasn't the most advanced swordwork, but it was fast, and it was good.

[future_sandworm]

Noting the newcomer, Leto looked up, nodding in his direction. The sword caught his attention; the metal had an odd colour shimmer.

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan finished his form, ending with a flourish that was entirely for show. He couldn't help it, he had an audience!

He noticed Leto's eyes on his sword, and so he smiled back at the other boy. "Hey," he said, with a nod. "You like it?"

[future_sandworm]

"I do," he said. "What is it made of?" Leto returned the smile, noticing that the man seemed to like the attention. "We haven't me. I'm Leto Atreides."

[not_in_the_book]

"Ronan Nolan," he replied. "And it's just steel. Well, mostly. A bit of blood, too, and a bit of magic. I had to reforge it after it shattered when I used it to cut a hole out of a dimension I was trapped in."

Huh. He didn't normally just spill quite like that.

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"Hey Ronan!" Dinah waved with one of the eskrima, mostly relieved to have someone else there to maybe distract her from Leto.... "I'm glad you're here to distract me from how hot Leto is by being hot yourself!"

Oh god.

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan blinked. "Uh, thanks?" he said. "I mean, happy to be of service! You're both pretty hot, too. I certainly wouldn't object to inviting you both back to my room."

The sad part is that he might very well have said that any regular day, too.

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"Eeep!"

Yeah, she'd say that any day of the week.

"Thanks that's really flattering but I'm a virgin and that's really intimidating and oh god why can't I shut up?"

[not_in_the_book]

"Probably for the same reason I can't," Ronan said, shrugging. "It's a Fandom thing, likely. It's probably safer just to go with it."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri made her (barefoot, of course) way down to the salle, thinking no one else would be around at this hour. She knew by the time she approached the doors, newly-retrieved lightsaber hooked on her belt and a pair of training remotes in one hand, that she'd been wrong, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"Hi," she said, setting the remotes aside; bad idea using them with other people around.

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"Hi! Oh thank god another girl. Now I won't be saying anything sexy, even though you're cute, please don't be insulted oh god why won't someone knock me out with a stick?"

Great introduction there, Dinah.

[weetuskenraider]

It didn't take Tahiri's Force sense to tell that Dinah was embarrassed.

"I could if you really wanted me to," she remarked, one side of her mouth quirked up in an amused smile. "But I really don't think you want that."

. . . why was she feeling the urge to babble the way she used to? Rapidfire, she continued, "And I'm not insulted. I have a boyfriend anyway, and you saying that isn't nearly as weird as his dad telling me I'm cute, and I'm not interested in girls anyway, although if there was ever a chance of me being interested in a girl it would probably be Jaina and . . . oh, Sithspit."

Well, at least the embarrassment had company now?

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"Jaina? I don't think I know Jaina," Dinah said, distracted from her own mortification for a moment. "I just really determined that I'm not into girls on Sunday, when I kissed four and it was really nice and all but mostly it made me want to go find a guy to make out with. Any guy. Oh, god and his dad? Ew!"

Really good company.

[weetuskenraider]

"His dad was a lot younger at the time?" Tahiri tried. "But it was still weird."

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan eyed the lightsaber at Tahiri's side, the Knowledge tingling a bit at the presence of the power source, but he smiled and waved. "Hey," he said. "Are those some kind of practice drones? I saw similar ones for sale once while I was at the Crossings."

[weetuskenraider]

"Yeah, they are. How'd you guess? And what's the Crossings?" Tahiri asked. "And why are you looking at my lightsaber like that?"

She was always this curious. She just usually kept most of it to herself, these days. Today, on the other hand.

[not_in_the_book]

"'Lightsaber'? Is that what it is? Sorry, the power source kinda flares a bit to me. Not, like, seeing it, but it's unfamiliar so the Knowledge kinda tagged it for my attention when you came in. And like I said, I've seen similar ones at the Crossings -- it's, like, the largest public worldgating facility in this area of the galaxy. I've been through a few times on business."

[future_sandworm]

"You have a lightsabre," Leto instantly noted. "And the remotes." Ben had showed him that the week before, and he was curious, but he had not intended to be that rude. "I apologise," he added, blinking. "We haven't met. I'm Leto Atreides."

[weetuskenraider]

"Not Gavin Darklighter, but if you recognize this stuff you've met one of the other Jedi so you've probably heard that already," Tahiri remarked. "Tahiri Veila, and I'm guessing you're sick of people asking you if you're related to Professor Atreides, aren't you?"

She paused. "Okay, but I have to ask. You are, aren't you?"

[future_sandworm]

"She is my twin sister," he confirmed. "And I met Ben Skywalker a few days ago. He demonstrated his weapon skills and expressed some interest in learning some of mine."