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[sonicstriker]

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[ashioki]

yeah i'll have to find something sooner or later
too much sitting around doing nothing
or waiting for the next stupid task
is probably gonna just drive me crazy

[ but that's depressing stuff to talk about, and that's probably not what tifa wants to hear right now. ]

it's good to go out in pairs or groups anyway
so if you ever feel like going out for a walk or run, just hit me up

[sonicstriker]

I mean, my schedule is wide open and I prefer not to be idle
You want to go this afternoon? It's not supposed to rain
Sounds like you could use the distraction too

[ashioki]

yeah, i guess there's no better time than the present
wanna meet up towards the entrance? around 2?

[sonicstriker]

I'll be there!

[ And she is, dressed in a sports bra and high-waisted leggings. She knows the people here are a lot more modest, but she's not passing out from being dressed wrong for a workout. ]

[ashioki]

[ oushi, meanwhile, opts for the standard fare of an oversized t-shirt and basketball shorts, leaving only his forearms and his legs from the knee-down exposed. the stipend they've all been afforded allowed him to acquire a decent amount of clothes to fill his otherwise empty closet; he'd never been an overly fashion-forward kind of guy, so he had opted for things that were more comfortable than they were particularly flashy. honestly, he's just glad the style here is familiar. ]

Hey...

[ he lifts a hand in greeting as he nears. in his other is a waterbottle he'd filled up along the way. his eyes do make a brief, unconscious sweep over tifa — and while he doesn't blush outright or anything like that, the way his gaze skitters away in afterthought has him looking almost guilty. don't worry, his thoughts aren't full of anything unpure; he had more or less gotten used to the fact that everyone else here was drop dead gorgeous in varying ways. but tifa's chosen outfit made her particular beauty all the more pronounced and oushi is, sadly, still a man with functioning eyes. ]

You wanna start with a walk first or just go right into running?

[ "running." more like light jogging for him.............. ]

[sonicstriker]

[ Her smile is bright, and if it falters when he checks her out, it's only for a second. It's not that kind of attention she minds; it's if people are weird about it. And she's trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. That was the whole point of this.

She, too, had noticed how many people here were eerily beautiful. It made her feel better, honestly, like she wasn't sticking out in this way she'd never understood. But...it turned out it was only the Augmented, and that she still gets strange eyes on her. Oh, well; she'd rather be seen as a monster than as a romantic option, at least to strangers. ]

Let's warm up first. [ She could use jogging to cut the conversation short if she needed to. ] There's a loop I do sometimes that goes out by a park.

[ She starts that direction, her own water bottle in hand. If this goes well she wouldn't mind eating lunch with someone, but she knows better than to get ahead of herself. ]

[ashioki]

[ the look he gives her is briefly confused, which really just goes to show how out of his depth he is here. when was the last time he'd willingly engaged in any kind of strenuous activity that didn't involve helping his sister move apartments? too long, honestly; to the point he didn't even remember a job required any warming up. does she mean stretches? she probably means stretches........ but then what's the loop for? is warming up just walking???? god help him. ]

Uh — right.

[ he follows her lead, hovering uncertainly beside her. the pace she sets is a leisurely one, for now, and he wills himself to simply relax and focus on the steps.

after he counts to the thirty-fifth step, he feels compelled to break the silence and blurts out, ]

Is it a lot different from this place? You world.

[sonicstriker]

[ Maybe...he's just awkward?

He's not trying anything, which she appreciates. But she does wait, to see how he'll initiate. It takes a little while, but -- okay. She can work with this. ]

I think they're similar. I lived in a big city too, on the poor side. Our technology was similar, though we were denser. We had a big company doing research and experiments on people and monsters, but...they were evil, for sure. And kept a lot of their research secret. [ And the world was ending. ]

What about you?

[ashioki]

[ no that's pretty much it — he's awkward. ]

Yeah, mostly. [ he shrugs, the gesture itself sort of dismissive. ] I mean the look and feel of it is probably the same — we have cities, we have buildings. The people all look like... people, and we had phones and stuff like this too.

But I'm not aware of any group that can do the things these Patho-Gen people can do. That kind of science is.. pretty beyond what the science in my world is still capable of.

But, uh. Did you say monsters? What were they like?

end of semester grading ugh

[sonicstriker]

That's nice at least. Some people come from way earlier times historically. That has to be hard, you know? Suddenly the materials are different, electricity exists...I don't know if I'd like that.

[ She doesn't notice it, but she's relaxing. Moving her body helps, and easy conversation helps. ]

It's pretty new on my world, as far as I know. There weren't monsters when I was a kid. Then they installed the mako reactors, and a mix of the energy seeping out and secret experiments meant they started to appear in the area and attack. I moved to the city after my town became uninhabitable. They weren't there at first either, but toward the end, they were literally everywhere.

I guess...you could tell they were animals. Most of them anyway. I didn't mind those as much. The ones that looked like someone had spliced them together from parts...and some of them had been human before...those give me nightmares, honestly. [ Her voice has gotten quieter, tighter. ]