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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[kenselvren]

Jalian frowned. The enduring part made sense, and the Father part...she'd learned enough of this timeline's religion to guess it was something similar. But... "What is a dwarf?"

[dwarvenswagger]

"I am." Thanks for that, Thorin. "Where I am from, there are the three free races of men, dwarves, and elves."

And hobbits. Ents. Skinchangers. Eagles. Way to simplify.

[kenselvren]

"So you are a dwarf and not a person...a human?" Jalian nodded. "You look more like than not. I should not have assumed."

[dwarvenswagger]

Thorin bristled a little at the first word used he was described as not being and had to force himself to relax a little. "I assume you do not have such folk where you are from."

[kenselvren]

Jalian had learned that "person" here meant more than a species designation; it didn't mean she didn't slip up sometimes.

She shook her head. "We have only ourselves and the Corvichi. They look very different. I had never met another species before coming here. How are dwarves different from humans?" She was not going to call them "men". Honestly, males in some timelines!

[dwarvenswagger]

They were men! It's what they were called. Human just sounded odd.

"We are shorter." Obviously. With his staggering height of 5'2". Which, for a dwarf, was actually rather tall. "We live longer than your kind, almost to three centuries."

Unless you were Durin. Then you were just cray-old.

"And we are stronger and more able to weather the harshness of the land."

[kenselvren]

Jalian shrugged. "The persons in this timeline are mostly fragile," she agreed. "They live longer than many ken Selvren, but their lives are easier. Your timeline...your world," she corrected herself, "is harsher?"

Old age wasn't a terribly common cause of death for ken Selvren women (nobody paid attention to the men).

[dwarvenswagger]

"It can be," Thorin replied. "Many would not have the skills to survive from what I can tell of this land."

[kenselvren]

Jalian laughed and rolled her eyes. "No. Most of them cannot hunt, even, or defend themselves." She thought for a moment. "They have many more kinds of food, though. And freeways and cars. Those are good."

[dwarvenswagger]

"They break easily, the cars."

[kenselvren]

"Sometimes." Jalian shrugged. "But there are always more. There are a lot of cars."