Atlas Gym; Tuesday [12/17].

[sword_chocobro]

Gladio was squinting a little at the weight area, where a bunch of gremlins in sweatbands and legwarmers were lifting weights with....yup. Yup. He was pretty sure those were fruitcakes. And once he did notice that fact, he had to go over and see for himself just how effective those fruitcakes might have been.

Granted, he was a lot stronger than your average scrawny gremlin, but even he had to admit, for a cake? Those festive bricks were dense. Probably not anything he'd consider working into the regular equipment, but honestly, for the season? He'd allow it.

He'd just make sure to send someone to clean up the area after they were done; you'd probably need a chisel to break off any crumbs from those things, but still, he didn't want to be wrong and end up with ants all over the place next week or something.

Atlas is open!

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell came in all smiley and cheerful. "I took a rickshaw here!" she announced happily.

[sword_chocobro]

To that, Gladio had to a laugh a little, a warm sort of chuckle as he shoots his head.

"Did you, now?" he asked, coming over to give Nell a quick kiss. "Good. Plenty of energy saved to put into working out extra hard this morning, then, right?"

[mylandmyrules]

"I don't know," Nell said, "I'm all over giggly from the ride! There are fairy lights on it and it's so pretty!"

[sword_chocobro]

Gladio was pretty sure Nell being this taken by just a ride on a rickshaw that they saw nearly every day just because of the added enhancement of fairy lights was just about one of the cutest things ever, even if it really wasn't that much of a surprise considering how much she'd liked fairy lights before.

"Bet they'll be even prettier, too," he pointed out, "once the sun goes down."

[mylandmyrules]

"Ohhh..." Nell breathed. "Yes, that would be even more beautiful! I'll have to go out riding after dark today."

She smiled at him. "Maybe you'd like to come with me?"

[sword_chocobro]

"Hmmmm...." Gladio hummed, making a big show out of squinting his eyes and rubbing his chin as he thought about it very deeply and carefully. "I don't know....feel kind of bad, making anyone have to lug all of this," his hands dropped to show off exactly what this he was talking about, because he truly was never one to miss an opportunity like that, "around."

But then, grinning, he winked at her.

"I'll be sure to tip 'em real good."

[mylandmyrules]

"Just don't tip us out of the rickshaw," Nell teased. "Oh, I can make hot chocolate in a thermos and we can bring a blanket to wrap around us. It won't be quite like a sleigh ride, but maybe the driver will bring us all over town."

She considered for a moment, then brightened. "And I can give them some hot chocolate nad some baked goods as a thank you."

[sword_chocobro]

"There ya go," Gladio's grin was as approving and agreeable as his next kiss. "Perfect plan. Especially if there's baked goods left over for me, too."

[mylandmyrules]

Nell grinned at him. "So many baked goods. Soooo many."

[stykera]

The Alot of Holiday Annoyances had thankfully not followed Stark from Ethics class.

He looked at the gremlins at the weights and decided today was more of a cardio day instead.

"Morning, Gladio," he said. "Are they lifting cakes?"

Sure, he'd heard of desserts being too heavy but this seemed to be a bit much.

[sword_chocobro]

"Morning, Stark," Gladio greeted back with a nod. "And they sure are. If it works, it works, I guess, but there might be a line I gotta draw against sweating with sweets if they leave too many crumbs behind..."

[stykera]

"It's an odd choice," Stark said. "But I wouldn't want to have to tell them that unless it was absolutely necessary."

Let them lift cake!

"Doing all right?"

[sword_chocobro]

"Doing alright," Gladio confirmed with a nod, and then a faint grin surfaced. "Doing pretty great, actually. Yourself? Gladio to have another semester almost done on the books?"

[stykera]

"I've liked this term," Stark said, "but yes. Looking forward to the break and the holidays and bringing some Christmas home to Moya and having new things to look forward to for the new year. Are you teaching again?"