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 Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:33 pm
It was morning. Well, he was told that it was morning - he wasn't really sure how to tell what time it was when he was in space - but he had just recently woken up and had heard others talk about breakfast. And for Ricky Cunningham, that meant it was time for his morning jog. Of course, in area he didn't have any route figured out, but he figured he'd jog through the Surrounding until he got tired and then head back home.
The southern boy wandered out to the Surrounding and the proceeded to do his stretches to limber up - but he couldn't help but notice he wasn't alone. There was a girl out there with him.
"Hey, girl!" he beckoned, not knowing her name so instead substituting it with her gender. He lightly jogged towards her with a friendly wave. "What're you doin' out here?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:37 pm
"Yoga!" She called back, ignoring the ‘Hey girl’ since there were honestly too many people who she was about ready to start calling ‘hey you’. “And trying to figure out how to get home!” She added stretching carefully though some warm up poses. “Want to join me?” She offered. What else had they to do after all, other than clean up the mess that the place was? She’d done some of that at least, little odds and ends and trying to help with general ‘infirmary’ work.
“I’m Dannay, what’s your name Boy?” She asked twisting as she spoke in a careful stretch that might seem overly slow.
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:54 pm
"Ricky, Ricky Cunningham," he introduced himself proudly, offering a hand out as he tilted his head to his side to stretch out the muscle and crack his neck. "I dunno any yoga. I'm more of a joggin' man myself, I like to go fer a run each mornin' to get my body up and going for the day. Good thing, too, since the aliens 'ere gotta lot of work for us to be doin' and all."
He reached down and touched his toes to stretch and then rose back up. "Are you staying at this Virgin Outpost?"
He didn't realize his mistake.
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:56 pm
She laughed at it though, “Maybe that’s why she’s so up tight.” She quipped remembering the tremendous mounts of cursing that had gone on the previous day.
“Checked did you?” She teased her eyes glittering as she straitened up for a moment. “Well, I can run with you if you like, I can keep up.” She said sounding more than was probably a good share of confidence for her.
“Or I can show you some basic yoga! It’s great to cool your head with.”
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:59 pm
Ricky wasn't sure who she was talking about or who she might be referring to as uptight, still having not realizing his word confusion. However, it wasn't the first time that Ricky didn't understand something going on in a conversation due to his ignorance, so he smiled and nodded with a soft fake laugh.
"Sure you can teach me, but I ain't the fastest learner or nuttin," he admitted. He knew that much, at least.
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:05 pm
“S’okay, it’s worth learning even if it’s learned slow, besides mastery is what takes the time. C’mon. This is the starter pose you kinda want.” She said and adjusted herself to show him, describing the basics of their next move before bending into it with a practiced ease of experience.
“Like that, try and keep your feet flat as you bend forward it stretches you out better.”
She waited till he more or less got into position before she asked the next question. “So…what were you doing before you got sucked into space?”
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:15 pm
Ricky was athletic, which provided him some flexibility and comfort in trying to mimic the girl's poses - but he was by no means any expert. As he stretched to mimic her moves, he continued on with the conversation.
"Well, I was at a party and tryna get hammered but ended up in space before I could have my first drink of whiskey," he explained. His disappointment was clear. "How abouts you?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:22 pm
“Really big paper I was writing for a class, thank GOD I was starting it early cause it the way things are looking right now, I’m feeling like we’re gona be the E.T. Building restoration team. Think I might go out to those trees later and have a look see, everything here is so… it’s like earth but it’s in space. So that’s kinda awesome…what about you?”
She moved into the next position with carefully chosen words as close to those used by her instructor as she could recall.
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:53 pm
"I jus' wanna get home, mostly," he shrugged between yoga poses. The poses reminded him of his normal stretching, but he wasn't sure if the process qualified as actual exercise - but it was likely he wasn't doing them completely correctly. "I reckon everyone else feels the same. Its nice that them Zodiacs are givin' us a place to stay and all but that dun' mean I dun' wanna go home any less. It ain't right bein' stuck up here in space. And I still ain't sure what the ******** is goin' on wit' them Zodiacs or Senshi or whatever they keep callin themselves. And that damn space whale was ******** weird, huh?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:57 pm
“I think some of them seem down right offended by us.” She replied with a small frown. “I suppose it might be more of a mess if they didn’t give us a place to sleep, and this way at least they get some helping hands. It’s such a MESS… maybe they have a space-rodent infestation or something, space… termites.” She shifted into a slightly harder post rattling off instructions as she considered the damage that had been done to the place. “Wonder if its like this at all the outposts…I wonder WHY.”
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:03 pm
"I ain't sure," he replied. The idea of space rodents both terrified him and excited him. On one hand, he knew more about how to kill a rodent than he knew about how to kill a whale. On the other hand, he didn't know anything about space rodents. "Maybe its jus' some old stuff in their behind that they never took care of or they didn't have enough people to help clean up til we came around. I dun' mind doin' the work none, I like to get my muscles movin."
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:07 pm
“I’m going to help rebuild the s**t out of this place.” She said with a determined nod. “It’ll be amazing, damned shame if we say anything when we get BACK the only people who’d believe us will be the rest of the people HERE. Imagine me trying to tell my roomie about space whales?” She gave a small laugh.
“…. I wonder if they know we’re gone.”
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:11 pm
"I'm purtty sure if I told anyone bout what happened up here in space then my mama would fly up to take me back 'Bama and get away from them city folk for a while," he laughed. "I would reckon that people know that we missin'. I was wit' my friends and all before I got here, so I bet they notice that I ain't wit them anymore."
"Ain't you got someone in your life to notice if you gone?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:19 pm
“I have friends, but what if there is some kind of… well I mean all of this seems a bit like it –can’t- be real except it damned well hurts like it was real.” She said fumbling for a point. “What if we’re NOT missing what if you’re just in my dream and this is some kind of way for me to deal with some …seizure or something. What if they brought us here? I got all these what IF and even the most outlandish of them still feels like it SHOULD make more sense than ‘doing yoga in outer space with a stranger on some terrorist-space-stronghold. “
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:25 pm
Ricky tried to follow what Dannay was saying. He really, truly did. But that type of metaphysical, hypothetical talk was not something he could follow very well, and he got lost at the word 'seizure' and wasn't able to find his way back. His confusion was obvious as he scratched his head, one brow raised and his jaw dropped.
"Er, sure, I s'pose that could be it," he tried to at least act like he knew what was going on. "I dun' think we in a dream though. None of my dreams have any weird rainbow roads or unicorns or space whales or anything. And I sure as hell ain't in your dream. I know that I'm real. And uh..."
The thought of questioning his existence and the existence of everything else around him complexed him. He once again returned to his confused state of head scratching, jaw dropping, brow raised, and blank staring.
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