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permutates) wrote2013-07-25 05:05 pm
permutates) wrote2013-07-25 05:05 pm
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2nd Transformation . spam :: gym
[ Instead of asking the network, she goes to the gym herself, wanting to see if there's any likely teachers, or people who are worth watching. (Raven can learn a lot from watching, she's found.)
So she ventures into the gym, blue-skinned, dressed in a tank top and loose sweatpants, and she sees the balance beam.
She part-remembers being a child, stepping out into a playground and playing along one. She always had the best balance. And she thinks of what Azazel has been teaching her, and she wonders...
She hops up onto it, a smooth movement, and extends her arms, testing her balance one way or another. She seems steady, so she dashes from one end to the other, every footstep sure. She tips backwards, then, folds until she's standing on her hands. It's hard to keep her grip, exactly; she shifts her fingers and stretches her legs out, a split, one forward, one backward. Rolls onto the forward one, moving herself back to her feet. And she does the whole movement again, quicker this time.
It's easy.
Part of her wants to laugh with the thrill of it, with realizing how innate her own physical abilities are. How graceful she is when she's not pretending to be someone else.
She balances on the end, debating attempting some sort of flip off of it. ]
So she ventures into the gym, blue-skinned, dressed in a tank top and loose sweatpants, and she sees the balance beam.
She part-remembers being a child, stepping out into a playground and playing along one. She always had the best balance. And she thinks of what Azazel has been teaching her, and she wonders...
She hops up onto it, a smooth movement, and extends her arms, testing her balance one way or another. She seems steady, so she dashes from one end to the other, every footstep sure. She tips backwards, then, folds until she's standing on her hands. It's hard to keep her grip, exactly; she shifts her fingers and stretches her legs out, a split, one forward, one backward. Rolls onto the forward one, moving herself back to her feet. And she does the whole movement again, quicker this time.
It's easy.
Part of her wants to laugh with the thrill of it, with realizing how innate her own physical abilities are. How graceful she is when she's not pretending to be someone else.
She balances on the end, debating attempting some sort of flip off of it. ]
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[Which. Is not the right thing to say. Probably. But it's out now, and - whatever, he does mean it. He wants things to be the way they were, or as close as they can be.]
[She doesn't.]
[Alex shrugs, shoulders tight.]
That's on him, though. [His choice. Not Alex's or Charles's or Raven's. Erik's.]
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Coming home means leaving her. It means leaving everyone that doesn't fit with Charles. ]
...yeah. It is.
[ Erik's choices aren't hers. She'll stay with them even if Erik goes back. ]
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[He'll wait and see.]
[He gets up abruptly, towels off the machines he's used fastidiously, and turns to go.]
I gotta go for a run. I'll see you later.