Fitness is What You Make It

[kree_soldieress]

WHO: Lauri-Ell, Open
WHERE: The Civics Center Gym
WHAT: Fitness Is Your Friend!
WHEN: Mid September
WARNINGS: None

Exercise For Your Heart | Civics Center Gym, OTA
There were plans now, and Lauri intended to set to them. With all of the input about the way that climbing walls had worked she had decided to take an afternoon to work. The woman made her way to the civics center after her security patrol and headed right to one of the benches she had on the outside of the main room. From here she could easily watch the two obstacle courses, or even the weights area. But she was too busy to mess with those right now, not with no one here at the moment.

So instead she sad there with the rocks she had gathered. With those she had a small metal tool, and was rubbing the ribbed metal over the stone to shape it. She'd done this before to shape the stone weights before acquiring others from Coruscant.

But she paused as she looked up at the entrance when she heard movement.

"Hello? Someone there?"

Comments

[orangewayfinder]

"It's Terra." Terra called from the entry way. He'd been meaning to take a look around this place and see what exercises he could do other than just do exercises outside. He hadn't done a handstand pushup thing in awhile and figured this might be the place to see if he could still do such a trick.

It had been ten years after all.

But when he walked in a little further, he caught sight of Lauri-Ell working on some project, so he came over. "What are you doing?"

[kree_soldieress]

ten years was a very long time indeed. Lauri-Ell rose to her feet and moved to greet him, but she smiled at the interest in her project.

"I am attempting to create a 'rock climbing wall'. It has been described to me. I need to make holds for it."

And so she was making them by hand.

[orangewayfinder]

"How do you make those?" Sure he'd seen the post to the network, but wasn't really sure he understood the purpose of them when people could just go..climb around outside.

[kree_soldieress]

"I've been carving them," Lauri noted with a smile. "Kyle gave me pictures of what they should look like."

[orangewayfinder]

"Carving..that sounds pretty neat." Aqua made their wayfinders and even if Terra didn't have his, he'd admired the crafting that she'd put into it. But the name sounded unfamiliar. "I don't think I've met him."

[kree_soldieress]

"Ah, he is a tall, skinny human with very red hair."

Clearly that should be enough to describe him, or so Lauri-Ell thought. "He seems to get into danger."

[orangewayfinder]

"Red hair." Terra mused thoughtfully. And then he looked at Lauri-Ell and shook his head. "Can't say I've seen someone like that." However, her next words were more ominous. "Gets into danger..that's not good."

[kree_soldieress]

"You will know him when you see him. I do not think other humans here have hair quite as red as his."

Cal had red hair too, but she didn't know him well. Kyle? It was almost like his head burned.

"Yes, I worry about his safety."

[orangewayfinder]

"That must make him really stand out then." Terra observed, wondering what was going on and why this kid always seemed to get into danger. And then of course he had to follow it up with "When was the last time you saw him?"

[kree_soldieress]

"Oh," she said, tilting her head to do the math. "Not long ago. He helped me by showing me how to make a climbing wall. I hope I'm doing it right."

Maybe she should seek him out to be certain.

[orangewayfinder]

"Is there someway I can help?" Terra didn't want to see someone doing something all by themselves if he could help it since he was so used to helping people. But at the same time, if she insisted she could do it, he wasn't about to interfere.

[kree_soldieress]

"I do not know. He insists I have nothing to be worried about," she said, frowning before she bit her lip. Who knew if that was true or not.

[orangewayfinder]

"Can he take care of himself if something happens?" Terra wasn't sure why Lauri-Ell seemed so worried about this person but there had to be a reason as to why that was.

[in_extremis]

"No, don't worry about it," Tony called back. It was no real use trying to hide the rattling noise he made as he dragged himself into the building, a train of what looked like looped ropes behind him and a bucket in his arms that he very carefully tried to keep it balanced upright among the rest of the tools he carried. He went limping slightly under his load part way down the hall, looking resolutely ahead as though he could avoid acknowledging Lauri-Ell and they could both have a better day for it, only to eventually accept that this was untenable. He didn't actually know where he was going, first of all. This wasn't a place he felt he should be spending much time. And besides, "You don't live here, do you?" Maybe he had just found yet another way to irritate Lauri-Ell.

[kree_soldieress]

Ah. Stark. Lauri-Ell frowned because the man continued to be... a complication for her. She looked momentary sad.

"Yes, I do Iron Man. A few levels above here."

[in_extremis]

Damn. Whole city to be in, and Lauri-Ell also lived here. Tony assumed she hung around here so often because she was working out or helping others, but finding her just sitting and...trying out a new hobby, he hadn't really needed the confirmation. He insisted, "Please, it's Tony when I'm in my...pyjamas," with a glance down at his soot-stained sweatpants, hardly the tightly controlled presentation that he would have preferred in an awkward encounter, and then he was left hesitating in the hall, looking back the way he had come like he might turn around and struggle his way back out. "I was just--I was looking around. Is it nice?" he asked, which was a terrible cover for standing in the civics centre with a bucket of paint, like he had come all this way like this to chat with Lauri-Ell about her real estate situation.

[kree_soldieress]

Hardly a new hobby. She had carved stone before, though mostly to make weights. Now she rose, putting her things aside so that she might cross to Tony to look down at the small man.

"Yes, it is very nice. There are others that help me maintain the obstacle courses, Keith and Clarice mainly. And others come to make use of it. It is pleasant."

She wasn't talking about her room. Her room was functional. A Kree could want for no more than that.

small...(´。＿。｀)

[in_extremis]

There was no way that wasn't deliberate, so Tony did his best not to let his shoulders deflate too much at Lauri-Ell towering over him like she was trying to crowd him out of the place. She might not have been talking about her room, but that was what Tony has asked about, so he stared at her for a beat before wondering, "You live in an obstacle course?" This did not seem as outlandish as it could have, because Lauri-Ell did kind of look like she exclusively swam upstream to bathe.

TOL!

[kree_soldieress]

Really? Lauri crossed her strongly muscled arms over her strongly muscled chest and looked down at Tony.

"I live in another part of the civics center. What is is you are here to see, Tony?"

[in_extremis]

She was already imposing, she didn't have to flex like that, too, and make it more difficult for Tony to concentrate on keeping his back straight and a humiliating flush from creeping up his neck. It wasn't like he hadn't spent enough time living with Thor or other equally mountainous people, but he also rarely had reason not to push back when he thought he was being intimidated. He was trying not to start the fight, for once.

At least she finally called him Tony.

"I thought this could be a good place to set up a tennis court," he admitted, and readily followed it with, "But if you've got your obstacles and...rocks, or whatever, there's lots of room in that big store place, and its about time someone reorganized in there..."

[kree_soldieress]

Ah! That sounded like a sport! Peter had said volley ball was played on a court too. Lauri-Ell smiled brightly, standing even taller as she radiated excitement.

"What size do you need? There are rooms that could be cleared. Please let me know, I would be happy to help. Could you use a tennis court for the volley of ball too?"

[in_extremis]

"Volley of...?" Tony started, muttered with distraction at the shift in Lauri-Ell's demeanour. Once he had recovered from that extra notch of height and the beam of her smile, it became clear that she must have meant volleyball, and Tony allowed, "Sure, room for plenty of balls on a court. Got a net and everything," and hoisted up his train of rope to display with some effort. "It takes a lot of space, though. Eighty feet, ideally. You got room for me?"

[kree_soldieress]

Oh she most definitely approved and was already turning away, gesturing for him to follow as she thought of spaces.

"I presume you would prefer something on a lower level for ease of access?"

[in_extremis]

"I'm regularly thinking about ease of access," Tony admitted to Lauri-Ell's enthusiastically retreating back, gathering up the strength he would need to keep hauling his collection after her as he watched the shift of muscle in the breadth of her shoulders. Even with the suit, he knew he'd still feel like a clumsy turtle loping along behind her.

Before Lauri-Ell had to wonder about what Tony was inferring this time, he quickly caught up with a rattle and continued, "We don't do a lot together here," sounding as lofty as he could manage, as though this tennis court thing had been entirely altruistic inspiration. "We're a lot of moving pieces that keep this place running, sure, but we don't have a lot of experience working as a team in a pinch. Team sports, build that muscle."

[kree_soldieress]

Well too bad he hadn't asked for help carrying things. Then again she might have said no, given how unkind Tony could be to her. Better to just not give her the chance to say no.

"I thought it was a game for fun. It seems Star Lord has not spoken to me truly," Lauri noted as she slowed down, just a bit, for him to keep up. She thought she knew a good room on this floor that might work, though, after she tore some things out. Chairs and desks and the like. "Will these fun games foster team work?"