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who: Alex Reagan and hopefully you!
what: An open log. There's a couple open prompts but if they don't work just add your own! And don't worry about styles. I'll match em.
when: The month of August.
where: Anywhere you want her to be that's not the mingle, honestly!
warnings: Not that I can think of at the moment.

I.

Despite everything else in her life, Alex Reagan happened to be someone who was a person of habit, and so where she could be found just happened to be habit as well. So, all too often Alex found herself working at The Coffee Shop rather than her office with the substandard coffee and the annoying interns. She was there almost every day with at least one empty cup in front of her, one full one and some sort of pastries there for anyone who might happen to want to stop by and visit, or for anyone whom she had a lunch date with. The table itself was largely taken up with two books and a notebook, along with her phone from home. She inevitably had one of the books open, even though both of them were on the same lines of things, even if vastly different.

Alex would either be reading from a book on learning Spanish and copying what she was learning into the notebook in small and frantic writing, as if her hand couldn't keep up with her brain, because well... That's basically what happened, even in things like this. Still, she was making a real effort to do it, and the book was deeply into, as Alex was hitting the harder parts of the beginner's section and there were lists of words that went along with it.

The second book is much older and still somehow less well-loved than the first one, and Alex had found it in the back of the library shelves. Despite having taken it out days ago, she was still dealing with the beginning pages of it, and if there was something that was guaranteed that would make her grumble, it was this. But still, she was determined to try and teach herself how to read Cruciform even if it killed her, which at this point it honestly just might do. So when someone came up to her, she was all too ready to sit either of them aside, and greeting the other person with a grin, especially if it was someone who she expected.

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The other way in which Alex was a creature of habit came with her walking her dog in the afternoon. Alex's pitbull was large and gray and more than a little friendly, which probably made sense considering Alex Reagan was his owner. Her mornings were normally running and rowing, but afternoon walks were more slow and leisurely and normally made by herself. Well, by herself as well as her playing Pokemon Go, even if no one else was. So, yes, she's walking her dog but she's also got her device out to let her know when there just happens to be a pokemon or two in the area that she's walking in.

Normally she collects one or two, and fights at a gym or so, and then goes about her business and comes home. Not today though. Today, Alex just stopped so suddenly that Apo's leash actually snapped taunt for a moment before the gray dog came back to see her, and Alex is just staring at her phone for a second. The dumbed silence only lasts for a second or two before Alex just yells like the child who she can come times be: "Oh my god! It's a Pikachu! It's a Pikachu!" Then without a preamble other than that, Alex just takes off after it, a giant grin on her face. She's never caught one before.

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"I know he does," Alex just gives a soft and fond smile, the sort of one that's become more than a little bit involuntary when she's talking about him with someone in unguarded moments. "Which is why he didn't talk me out of doing this, honestly. I'm pretty sure it's the most terrible idea I've had that he's supported." Bad joke there, but it's still true, Richard was enthusiastic about her taking the lessons, even if he did tease her for how much she whined when she came home.

Shaking off the concern, Alex just smiled her more normal smile to Lizzie. "I'm okay. If there was even the slightest chance that I'd aggravate my injuries or anything like that, he'd be out here arguing with me until I put it on hold. I promise, I'm fine... just not at all used to doing something like this."

"I nearly fear to ask what terrible ideas he's refused." Not that training was especially fatal or risky, but too much could risk injury. Even at the temple they were aware of that.

She walked with her back to the area. "You will be hurting tomorrow. Epson salt baths along with anti-inflammation pills will help."

Alex isn't going to fill Elizabeth Bennet of all people in on some of the ideas that she's had. The last thing that she wants to do is scandalize her friend like that! So, she's just going to smirk instead for a moment before she moves to follow her back into the area.

"Yeah, I know. Ice and all of that stuff too. I'm probably mostly going to just lay on my bed and groan like a dying walrus or something like that though." Alex has no illusions about dealing with the pain tomorrow with grace and style. She's going to be a whiny brat, but she'll still get up and do it the next day anyway.

"And I will remind you that this is what you signed up for." She teased back. Perhaps Alex didn't know it was going to be this difficult to start with, but she had to know it wouldn't be easy.

Once more Elizabeth lead her into the series of exercises. This time around, she did slow down just a fraction of the speed as they did earlier that day, but that was all the leeway she was going to give her.

"I know. I make a lot of bad life decisions." Despite the words, Alex's voice is light and teasing, and she sounds amused as she started to go through the exercises again. Honestly, she barely noticed the change in speed; there was too much going on in the form of well. Ow.

She kept doing the exercises, until Elizabeth gave the word that they were done, and then she just dropped onto the ground once more and closed her eyes and covered her face with her hand dramatically and muttered, "okay, leave me here to die."

"And then someone will have to retrieve my body when Strand kills me in return." She said, her expression serious but tone clearly meaning she was kidding around. "Come on, I am not so cruel as to really leave you there."

She reached over and took her hand, pulling her up onto her feet. "And to think, we were actually indoors."

Imagine how poor she'd feel if they had to do this outside.

Alex just laughed softly. "Strand wouldn't do that. The person you'd need to be worried about is Simon, actually." Which yeah, was a giant blinking 'it's complicated' sign in crimson lights around him. But she does take the hand to help her onto her feet, and Alex just does groan again at that.

"Yeah, I know. God, it still sucks though. Not enough to stop or anything, but jesus my body hates me right now."