The Gym: Wednesday Afternoon

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Dipper decided today to do something healthy. Like work out with the weight machine to try to perform a bench press.

It wasn't working well. He could barely push the bar up.

If one listen closely, they could hear him mutter "Stupid. Noodle. Arms."

Hopefully no one else would be around to witness his humiliation.

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[spin_kick_snap]

"I'm sorry, I hardly consider myself an expert in the field of Equine Explosions," Kathy said, with a slight bow. "I defer to your clearly superior knowledge."

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"You certainly did not act as though you were a mere novice," Thorin pointed out dryly. Almost amused by the attitude now. "I had awaited your teachings."

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"I don't need to be a master glazier to notice a hole in the window," Kathy said, raising an eyebrow. "You said you'd stick black powder in a saddlebag. Full stop. An eight year old could see that's pointless without an ignition source."

[dwarvenswagger]

"Do go on,"Thorin replied, looking more and more openly amused. "You have found the glaring hole in my plan. How could I have missed it?"

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"That was what I had asked you, remember?" Kathy asked, giving him an extra polite smile. "I'm waiting to be illuminated by your brilliant fire-starting plan."

Yes, those were deliberate puns. Kathy made her own fun.

[dwarvenswagger]

"My most sincere of apologies. I forget the manners of men are so different," Thorin replied with a smile of his own that would work well at court with its blandness. "Might I ask why you are so interested in such matters? Or will you once more take offense to what was a mental exercise in possibilities?"

[spin_kick_snap]

Were they gonna have a polite-off? Was that where this was going?

"You may," Kathy asked, looking at him with wide, earnest eyes. "I might even answer you question, which--oh." She laid a hand over her cheek. "Which I do note you haven't been able to do with mine yet."

[dwarvenswagger]

Thorin stared at her as though waiting for her to really think about what she was demanding to know and how utterly pedantic she was being for reasons utterly beyond him.

Because seriously.

[spin_kick_snap]

And Kathy just blinked innocently back, as if she just couldn't wait to hear him expound. This was his thought experiment, after all.

[dwarvenswagger]

If she believed she could out stubborn a dwarf, more power to her! Though now Thorin was forced to reexamine her in case she was possibly not intelligent enough to see the flaws of her odd argument.

It was sad sometimes, the differences in the free folk.