Demon Marcus, Monday

[that_oldsaying]

It had been a very strange week, all things considered.

Not bad strange, not for her, but there were a lot of things to think about and she didn't really want to think about a lot of them too hard.

(She wondered what had happened to Kathy and the nice man and her other papas. Were they all alright?)

Alluka wandered in to work at the right time and looked around thoughtfully. She hadn't been by here last week but she didn't think it had been the same then. In fact, it wasn't the same already since… since Milady wasn't around.

She did have the presence of mind to see if there was broken glass anywhere but, no, there was no sign of Milady's tank. After a while, Alluka decided that, obviously, Milady had gone on a fishy adventure.

This sent her off to find an appropriate dress (which she paired with hot pink leggings and black ballet flats). Then she got to work, straightening up everything that was out of place.

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Talk to Alluka

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Re: Talk to Alluka

[soniaroadsqueen]

Not having classes on Mondays was nice. It was especially nice after a weekend as weird as the one they'd just had. It gave Ringo plenty of time to herself, to just ride and get her thoughts in order. But even after that, she still had time to check in on people.

Which had led her, sometime in the late afternoon, to Demon Marcus. "Hello?" she called as she pushed the door open and glided in on her ATs. "Alluka, you working today?"

Re: Talk to Alluka

[that_oldsaying]

Alluka was working! Though by this time of day, she was cuddled up in a blanket at the counter, solemnly offering tea to her elephant. Mr. Bubbles had told her today was an elephant day.

Alluka had agreed.

She perked up, beaming at the door. "Ringo! Ringo, hi!"

Re: Talk to Alluka

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Hey, there you are!" Ringo grinned. "How's it going?"

Usually Ringo brought food on these little visits, but today she came empty-handed. She really needed to step up her visiting game.

Re: Talk to Alluka

[that_oldsaying]

Alluka didn’t even care, though, was the thing. She had tea and cookies and Ringo was good company. Her bringing food was always appreciated—but it wasn’t a necessity.

“Ringo, Ringo! I managed to jump like you do with my ATs this weekend!”

Because that was clearly the most important thing that had happened.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Actually, in Ringo's book, that was pretty high up on the list of priorities?

"Oh yeah?" She was beaming. "What'd you do?"

[that_oldsaying]

"I was going along the tops of buildings," she said, "like you'd showed me. And I was timing my jumps carefully and being sure not to be too reckless." Since some of the jumps she could've done were... well, reckless was putting it nicely. Alluka wasn't that good yet, to feel like she could take those. "But then Kathy was down on the street and there was this building blocking the road, so I went from the building I was on, onto the fallen one, and then I bounced off the building next to it to get down to the ground!"

It was still pretty amazing!

"I didn't fall or nothing!"

A beat.

"Did you want tea and cookies?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Hey, that's awesome!" Ringo was actually clapping her hands excitedly. "You'll have to show me!" Because Alluka was getting pretty good, and watching the other girl always made Ringo feel happy.

"And you know I almost never say no to tea or cookies."

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"I'll get you a cup!" Alluka said, waving Ringo over to where she had her tea party set up. "And if you're not busy, we could go after work?"

She had her ATs here, after all.

"Though I think mine might need maintenance on them soon. I was using them a lot this past week and I still don't know much about that part. I cleaned them, but..."

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Awesome!"

Ringo hopped up to sit on the counter with a grin. "And I'm totally free after this, so we should definitely get out there so you can show me!"

Then she fell silent, looking a bit contemplative. "Yeah," she managed eventually. "I guess I haven't really been all that great about teaching you how to do maintenance stuff, huh?" She glanced over. "I haven't even told you about Tuning, have I?"

[that_oldsaying]

Alluka shook her head as she got Ringo's tea ready, making it just the way that the other girl liked it.

"I don't think so," Alluka said. "I think I'd remember that, if you had."

[soniaroadsqueen]

"I guess I've been neglecting your AT education a bit, then," Ringo allowed with a little grin, watching the tea preparations.

"Though, to be fair, Tuning is a lot less important when you first get started with AirTrek. But it sounds like you're starting to get good enough that we should definitely do it."

[that_oldsaying]

"What is it?" Alluka asked, unable to help preening just a little bit at the idea of being good enough to be taught something else.

Setting Ringo's tea cup on a saucer she set it down in front of the other girl.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo took a sip of tea while she thought about your answer.

"Hmm. Have you ever been out for a ride and leaned forward to accelerate, and you end up going faster than you'd wanted to? Or not as fast? Where you have to readjust?"

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"Ye-es," Alluka said, sipping her own tea. "But, but I thought that was part of just learning."

And, to be fair, some of it was definitely also that.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo grinned. "It definitely is part of learning. Especially at the beginning. I mean, no one gets everything right every time. But once you've started to practice, you'll start to find that everyone's body moves a little bit differently. Different center of balance, different flexibility, that sort of thing. Tuning is about adjusting your ATs so that they're more in sync with your body. So that when you move, they respond the way your body naturally feels like they should."

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"Like they're part of your feet instead of what you're wearing on them?"

She offered a cookie to her elephant, who shook its head, and then she nibbled on the cookie instead.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"That's a pretty good way of looking at it," Ringo agreed with a beaming smile.

"So for you to do that, you have to really understand your body. You basically use some special equipment to sort of read the, I guess you can think of it as "rhythm", of your body. The way it moves and stuff like that, and you use that information to adjust your ATs."

"It's actually best if you have someone else help you since it's actually really hard to do from inside your own body. Like, it's hard to see how your body works because you're so used to it, you know?"

[that_oldsaying]

"I guess so," she said slowly, though it was all pretty confusing to her. "It's like... like testing your balance, only instead of falling off a balance beam, someone else watches and let's you know when you're about to fall?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"I think," Ringo said after a moment, "that maybe it's more like someone telling you if you lean a little forward or a little backward or just stand straight when you're just standing around. Every person is a little different, and because you're so used to it, you don't think about that kind of stuff."

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So... tired...