The Salle, Monday Morning

[bitchprince]

His bruises had faded to a point where he could train again, so Arthur was, as usual, back in the salle to go through his morning routine, and to deal with his regulars as they showed themselves.

He was choosing to ignore anything that may have gone on over the weekend (although he was messing about with his Blackberry in order to finally let Reno in on what had happened on Friday. It was a work in progress, but he'd managed to work it down to ensorclld alli and he had hope that with time, he could both finish the last word, and add the 'golden fish' part. It was possible it would be easier if he simply figured out how to leave a voice-mail-- he was quite an expert in the field if he wasn't, in fact, lucid and sober) and took a good training sword instead to give his aching muscles something to remember.

Just an ordinary Monday morning, all in all. He had a vague hope it might actually stay that way for once.

[[ open salle as per usual! ]]

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[bitchprince]

Oof.

Well, now he was getting glomped. Blinking in surprise, Arthur... patted him on the back. He could do touching. Right. Yes.

Although he wasn't sure where 'arms full of overly bouncy warrior' qualified as just 'touching'.

[puppy_fair]

Squishy hug-thing!

It took Zack a moment to get his fill of random, unannounced squishy Arthur hugs, but he eventually did. And he pulled away with a slightly sheepish grin on his lips, too.

"Uh. I mean... Thanks!"

[bitchprince]

There was a moment where Arthur stared at him as if he was insane. Then the expression slacked into something slightly nicer.

Arthur Pendragon did not get a lot of hugs, nor was he going to admit they were kind of nice.

"Right," he said. "...Welcome."

[puppy_fair]

Everybody needed hugs. It was a fact of life. A life without hugs was like an orchard without fertilizer. Sure, maybe the trees didn't die without, but there wouldn't be any delicious fruit after a while, either.

Or something like that. Zack would probably puzzle out a half-decent analogy someday. Maybe.

"Is there anything I should bring with me tomorrow? Or anything like that?"

[bitchprince]

If he could keep his mind focused on it.

"Just yourself, as usual," Arthur told him, rubbing the back of his head as he still shot Zack a... curious... expression. "And any ideas you may have that aren't completely insane."

Or over-pixie-stixed.

[puppy_fair]

But the sugar was half of the fun!

"That, I can do," Zack decided. He wasn't sure what to make of the expression, really, but that wasn't anything new for Zack, either. "I'll see if there's anything that I can come up with between now and then, at least!"