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[ She's been working herself hard. Maybe too hard: she spends hours a day in the gym, sometimes as many as eight when she's not sleeping. She's read books on how to get in shape quickly and safely - more or less - and she's pushing herself as far as she can go. Trying to find her limits.

Today, she can also be found coming out of the CTS with Kelsier, bruised and mussed and a little bloody, and grinning ear to ear. If you're trying to impress me, it's working, he tells her, and she kisses him on the cheek and flushes bluer and makes her way to the Infirmary to make sure she's got nothing worse than bruises.

She hasn't reached her physical limits yet, but emotional is a different story. Being a child again, with that faith in Charles, has shaken her. Her conversation with Charles before that shook her. And sometimes, even when she's feeling fine - maybe when she's feeling the most fine, paradoxically - she starts crying. And sometimes she can't stop. Tucking herself into a corner of the gardens and trying to muffle the sounds of it so no one catches her at it. It's embarrassing, and she can always eventually manage to pull herself together and make it back to her room. ]

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[ Raven is blue, with red hair, not hiding. ]

What's something you've done here, for the first time? Or thought or realized, for the first time.

[ She's not sure what she's looking for. Maybe a little hope. ]

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[ Her steps hesitate, but it's just a half-second. She's still not at all sure what to make of this other woman, or sure what Rogue wants from her. And there has to be something, right? She summons a smile, and then she moves to another treadmill, one a couple down from Rogue. Not next to her, not the farthest from her either. ]

[She sees the hesitation, and understands. She told Raven a lot about her counterpart and what that Raven meant to Rogue's life. It was bound to be a little strange between them for a while. There wasn't much she could do about it but let them both adjust to things.

So in the meantime, they'd just share the space and work out. ]

[ It's nice and peaceful, after a little while, to just let the rhythm of a run take over. There's an unspoken peace in it, in coexisting without talking.

Maybe talking just gets in the way.

It will be a long while before she steps off, and folds onto a mat to stretch. ]

[Rogue's not far behind. She towels the sweat from her face and throat. Drinks some water, and heads for the weights herself.

She's in the middle of a set of arm curls when it clicks. The silence was comfortable. There was no tension or pressure to fill it. There was no expectations beyond just this. Rogue had been on a team with her mother before, but it hadn't been like this. She'd been waiting for the other shoe to drop with Mystique, and even with the expectation, had been knocked flat. And then worse. But this was different. This felt almost like being back home with a member of her own team. The realization baffled and pleased her, and she smiled to herself.]

[ She is much more relaxed by the time the running is through. She's only really begun with her workout; after this, she might go back to her room and keep trying some of those dance instruction videos, or work on the combat forms that Natasha taught her out here. There are a lot of options.

She's always been flexible. Now, she can almost press her forehead against her knee, in the stretch. ]

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