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[Victor is too darn excited about the completion of the new dance studio to not post about it immediately upon completion. He tries to sound good and proper in advertising the new place, seeing as classes should be much more appealing with a well equip location. Everybody should be interested in staying active! It's good for the body and mind!]

Hello! I would like to announce the opening of the new Yuutopia Dance Studio, located across from the lovely Verdrel Square! The building has been beautifully renovated with help from the locals and is soundproofed! We have two hardwood dance halls, a more breezy top floor and more cozy basement level. The basement is especially well insulated so we can hold more guided classes than before, now able to speak freely in the space. We hope to see many new people interested in the benefits of fitness! All are welcome!!

Yuuri and I will be curating the space and giving classes on the regular. We'll try to keep an updated list of times and classes on the chalk board out front. When entering, please quickly and quietly open and close the door, so the space can remain as safe as possible.

Also, feel free to ask either of us directly for information. We're going to be teaching strength training, yoga, and ballet. Classes will all be at the beginner level unless there is interest in more advance study. We hope to see a lot of new faces!

PS: Also, if I happened to have acted strangely toward you some nights ago, MY APOLOGIES. I was under the influence...
I will try to not let that happen again whoops

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Body weight exercises, primarily. We don't have any independent weights or machines at the studio for lifting, but there are plenty of exercises that can build muscle and stamina without them.

That would... actually be really useful. I had a rough couple of years and could use some exercise to help me out. Not sure weight lighting would be the right thing for me at the moment.

[Times were hard.]

You might prefer yoga then! It's more focused on stretching and flexibility training, it can be very good at easing aches and pains. Hot yoga is a personal favorite when I'm feeling sore, though that can be rather intense. We have a fireplace on basement level that will allow us to warm the place up for heated lessons.

How flexible do I have to be? Most of my left arm suffered some serious injuries and doesn't move as well these days. The wrist and several of the fingers were broken and I had to fix it myself as there weren't any doctors to look at it.

[The words "hot yoga" sound weird but he could see the appeal of exercise in a warm room.]

My condolences for your past injuries. Any lesson you stop in for should be accessible to a newbie! If anything is uncomfortable for you, there's no need to try and push yourself. We're not going to be particular, we're offering these courses purely for the benefit of individuals in the community. [very much a no pressure environment, it's all about personal discipline in the end, anyways.]

It's fine, it's nobody's fault but my own.

Would be it be okay to attend a couple lessons of each before deciding?

[His personal discipline is excellent, once he decides to stick with something Sora sees it through. Maybe both will be fine and he'll keep on with all the lessons.]

Certainly! We don't have a real structure decided just yet, so we're very happy to make allowances for those interested.

I don't think I caught your name? I'm Victor and my partner is Yuuri.

Great, then you'll definitely see me there.

I'm Sora. Nice to meet you, Victor.

A pleasure! Stop by and we'll meet in person.

I'm not a professional in physical therapy, but I can try my best! I know a few good stretches for torn up muscles. [he's never been severely injured himself, but he has had some scares from missing jumps and overworking himself to the point of harm. If nobody is more qualified than him, why not try and help as best he can?]

Sure, I've got some time to spare now.

That would be awesome, actually. I make sure to stretch it a few times a day, especially when I use it a lot but it's only some simple stuff so anything you can offer would be pretty great. [He especially has to stretch three of the fingers in the morning especially because they're pretty stiff.]

Seems like you're already mindful, that's a good sign! Most injuries get worse when they're further neglected. I've seen many skaters go out on torn up ankles and not be able to recover after, always a shame.

If I can help in any way, it would be my pleasure! [Victor doesn't have... many other skills outside of skating, he didn't have time to cultivate anything else. Any way he can use his training in dance and fitness to help out, he'll try to be useful.]

I got a lot of good medical training and knew it was important to stretch it. Plus I could hardly ignore it when it's stiff after sleeping, especially the fingers. It'd be a lot harder to do my job if I slacked off too much.

Are you talking about ice skating? [He hasn't put on ice skates more than a couple of times but once had an ability that kind of allowed him to move like he was.]

I am! Do you know about it? [uh-oh, someone to gush about ice skating with? Victor won't shut up if he gets going, it's all he really knows about.]

[Uhhhh, why does he feel like he stumbled on something weird?]

Just a little. It's not really something we have on my world but I've done it a couple of times on other ones.

Once I had an ability that was kind of like ice skating. Without the skates. Or the ice.

Huuuh? Like skating on air? There's a lot of people with fantastical powers here, I should be all that surprised.

Aaa, wow, how fun that would be! If less challenging... did you have fun? [he likes that ice skating is difficult in it's nature or what he did on the ice was. Most people had no trouble just scooting or gliding around, but Victor wanted to do the difficult jumps and impressive choreography]

No no, not on air. I used to be able to slide across the ground so it kind of looked like I was skating.

Yeah, it was fun. I think the more challenging thing about it was trying to shoot enemies down while trying to not skate backwards into another. [It had its own set of difficulties. Sora kind of wishes he could use the ability again. But he'd probably find actual competitive ice skating fun too.]

Uhm... Pardon? What do you mean by "shoot enemies"? [those are two very alarming words to Victor!]

Where I'm from there are all kinds of monsters and I was shooting magic to defeat them. [No guns and not talking about the regular kind of monsters here.]

Monsters like the sound eaters? That sounds like something from Yuuri's video games... [Victor has watched Yuuri play maybe a couple games and one was definitely 2spoopy for him and he didn't like it. The other was probably an MMO he'd never hope to understand. Typical nerdy boyfriend things.]

Sort of. I mean, there are all kinds of monsters out there and they're different. This is the first time I've heard of a monster attracted to noise. [Sora's had some experience with video games, has seen them. They are kind of like that.]

So we're unique in that regard. Not sure I like that.... [what did his preferences matter, though? If things were Victor's way, nobody would be here at all.]

Oh well, best make what we can of it.

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Your world doesn't have monsters? [Not unusual, even here in this world.]

None at all! Monsters are only in stories... [or so he thought]

Huh, for the longest time, mine didn't either.

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