The beach, Wednesday morning

[betterthanaplan]

It was a normal week. A perfectly normal week. Duke had gotten a full, normal night's sleep last night; he hadn't had any sort of trauma since the nightmare horses. The bruises from Haven were fading. He felt good and strong and normal, god dammit.

So it was time for some perfectly normal morning yoga.

Yeah. That would last.

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[thatwaslucky]

He was doing better than Rey, at least. Though she wasn't showing that at all when she arrived right on time with a, "Morning."

[betterthanaplan]

"Hey." Duke gave her a smile. "How's it going?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Good," she answered. That had at least morphed into something more positive since Sunday. "How about you?"

[betterthanaplan]

Duke nodded. "Good. Dealing, you know? With everything that got . . . dug up."

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah. It'll probably take some time," she said vaguely.

[betterthanaplan]

"I gather that's pretty normal," Duke said. "Needing time. Frustrating, but normal."

Claire had assured him of that, anyway.

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah. It'd be less frustrating if it wasn't a rehash of things from before, but what can you do," she said with a shrug.

And getting slapped with everyone else's. And everyone's feelings about it. And realizing that what she really wanted to do right now was hug her space mom.

"But everyone's going through the same thing right now, it seems."

[betterthanaplan]

"We all got whacked with some old trauma, yeah," Duke agreed.

And some not-so-old trauma that they were still trying to stubborn their way past, at least in Duke's case.

"Relief to know I can remember things again without flinging them at my loved ones, though."

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah. Sorry about that, by the way."

He'd actually been the only one to get hers.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia was going to go see Shunsui at the store again today. And this beachy detour was not stalling, because in all likelihood, Shunsui wasn't even awake yet at this point in the day.

So, totally not stalling.

Just... turning up on the beach in clothes fit for yoga. It appeared she'd taken something of a liking to leggings since her return.

[betterthanaplan]

Leggings were basically the perfect bottom, so that made sense!

"Ha yun, gona. This going to become a regular thing?" He would be very happy if this became a regular thing.

[okteiviakom]

"Ha yun, jaka," Octavia replied, as she came to a stop by him. And shrugged. "Mebi," she added, and yes, it sounded like she was lazy about saying 'maybe', but then she continued, "Medo gaf step au, nami?

No, he probably didn't know, Tavi.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke tried. He really did. But he had no idea what that meant.

"Okay, I got 'step out'. That's it. You asking me on a date?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia snorted. "I said the body needs to move."

Or 'wants to', because ambiguity. But anyway.

[betterthanaplan]

"Ah! Very true. Medo gaf step au." Duke filed that away with a little nod. "'Nami', that's . . . 'know what I mean'?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia nodded. "It's like how we say 'you know?'"

She dropped her bag onto the sand, then bent down to untie her boots.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke nodded. "Yeah, that's what I figured. I like how much of Trig is adapted slang."

[my_own_advocate]

And if it wasn't a Lucifer, finally over the mess of a month or so ago and ready to fall into whatever mess came next. "Morning," he called brightly, sauntering onto the beach with his jacket slung over one shoulder.

[betterthanaplan]

"Morning." Duke gave him a slightly wary smile in return. Since last time he'd apparently managed to shove his entire foot in his mouth without noticing. "Don't suppose I'm going to finally convince you to try doing some yoga, this week."

[my_own_advocate]

"No," Lucifer said merrily. He came to a stop, though he didn't sit down this time. "But I have decided that since you insist on doing this here at least once a week, I should probably let you at least explain the whole point of this seemingly pointless if pretty affair to me."

See, he was trying to reboot this whole 'hanging out while Duke did yoga' thing by showing an interest.

[betterthanaplan]

In his very Lucifer sort of way, yes.

"The whole point," Duke said with a rueful shake of his head, even as he stretched his arms up for a quick full-body stretch. "Is that mortal bodies need to move. Or they start to fall apart. Or at the very least, aren't going to be as good at having fun."

[my_own_advocate]

"Yes, but not everyone chooses to be that stretchy about it, darling," Lucifer pointed out.

[betterthanaplan]

"And that is their loss," Duke said. "When you're trying to run a ship by yourself, flexibility and strength is key. And it, you know, helps in other ways, too."

[my_own_advocate]

"I'm hardly going to complain about your other ways," Lucifer said, lightly. "But why yoga? Don't tell me it's a Buddhist thing, because you would make the Buddha cry."

[betterthanaplan]

"Buddha doesn't cry," Duke said. "But -- no. I got into it because I was super into this yogi I met. Turned out liked it, so I kept it up."