Fight Club, Atlas Gym, Sunday Evening

[tyler_gone]

Tyler paced the gym barefoot as the fighters assembled. "Graduates," he began. "Students. Teachers. People who work in town. Miscellaneous others. Welcome to fight club."

"We're glad to have you here," Ghanima continued smoothly. "But if you're here, you fight. If, for some reason you cannot fight, we ask you stay towards the back. This isn't a place for voyeurism. If you want a show, go find a television."

"Ghanima, you speak my language," Tyler informed her., before turning back to the group. "Two people to a fight, fights end when someone goes limp or says stop. We are not trying to kill each other here; we're trying to train. We're trying to improve. Got questions, ask one of us." He looked at his cohort. "Anything else?"

"Rules are on the door," she said crisply, "but we're happy to answer any inquires you may have."

"Now go hit the mats or go home."

[OOC: Preplayed with atreideslioness. Up early for SP; guests welcome.]

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Re: Arrive + Mingle [Fight Club, 5/3]

[raspberryturk]

For a moment, there, Reno kind of thought he was going to die. It would be a very happy death, a side-effect of his chest swelling about a dozen times its usual size in pride.

And, at the same time, he felt completely humbled. The future remains uncertain. An empty canvas. Oh, shit, he was going to get all emotional, here. Not gonna get all teary. Nope.

He'd just shift his weight a little from foot to foot. Resist the urge to find something to cling to so that he'd never have to leave. The closest somethings were Leto and Ghanima, after all, and he doubted either of them were particularly clingy.

"This is a sort of graduation ceremony, huh?"

Re: Arrive + Mingle [Fight Club, 5/3]

[atreideslioness]

"Consider it your graduation of another sort," Ghanima murmured, eyes dancing. "Those of us who accept the Oath spend our lives in service, Reno. We are forever improving, forever learning, always dedicated to safeguarding and guiding humanity. I only gave you the words to what you had already decided for yourself."

Ghanima's lips twitched in a smile as she cast an arch glance at Leto. "And we both know what the other Bene Gesserit think of me, brother-mine. They'll hardly be shocked that I'm going around creating rogue agents. Furious, but not shocked."

Male rogue Bene Gesserits. Ghanima was very lucky the Sisterhood was too frightened of her to protest.

Re: Arrive + Mingle [Fight Club, 5/3]

[raspberryturk]

"The human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas," Reno murmured, trying to commit as much of that speech to memory as he possibly could.

He kind of wanted to reach out, and pluck this moment out of time itself, and keep it in his pocket. That way, he could just reach in and hold it for a moment whenever things seemed too damn hopeless.

"They're good words to have," he decided.

Re: Arrive + Mingle [Fight Club, 5/3]

[atreideslioness]

"They're yours, now," Ghanima replied. They were; she had used the Voice, and so they'd be buried in Reno's subconscious for the rest of his life. "No one can take that from you Reno."

"And if your plants do die, just write me, and we'll see about finding another alternative."

Re: Arrive + Mingle [Fight Club, 5/3]

[raspberryturk]

Not going to hug the teacher. Not going to hug the teacher. Not going to-

Reno was moving to give Ghanima a hug. He was going home tomorrow. He kind of really needed one.

"Thanks," he mumbled. "For everything."

Re: Arrive + Mingle [Fight Club, 5/3]

[atreideslioness]

Ghanima just smiled and wrapped her arms around him. "I didn't do anything, Reno," she said. "You did it yourself. I just gave you a push in the direction you already wanted to take."

"Sometimes we all just need a little encouragement to try the path less-traveled."