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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1482272" data-attributes="member: 13737">ChinaKevinYou don't hear the book fall to the tiled floor when you fall asleep in the bath.  But the awakening you get is anything but gentle as you very nearly drown yourself when you slide under.  Spluttering, you hope you didn't miss dinner as your stomach rumbles angrily. Dining RoomAt 12:15, everyone but Kevin has gathered for lunch.  Rice and chicken, with water and milk are the fare  The spices used bring a pleasant aroma and fill the simple food with wonderful flavor.  By 12:30, Li looks a bit concerned.  But shortly after that, Kevin shows up. "Wow, look who decided to join us," Carl says with a bit of a snort. "There is no need to speak in such tones, please, Carl," Li says.  "You are all friends, are you not?" "Right on!  I'm not too late," comes a happy voice as Nova comes in and crashes down to a sitting position right next to Li.  She's dressed in a lovely blue dress and her perfectly straight red hair comes midway down her back.  Not a hint of fire is near her, nor does she seem to have any trouble keeping it away.  She digs in like she hasn't eaten in years. Li smiles faintly at Nova, but looks, you think, a little jealous.  "You look wonderful in that dress," Li says softly. "Thanks!  Hope you don't mind.  I don't own any clothes.  I was surprised you had anything in my size.  So gang, how was your first training session?" she asks between mouthfuls with a knowing grin. "It was my mothers," Li says very quietly as she turns to resume her meal.   Only X12 and Raisa hear her as Dara exclaims at the same time,  "No clothes?" Dara says, perking up.  "I can fix that if we can get our hands on some cloth!" Some fifteen minutes later... "You all here?" says Master Wen as he walks briskly into the dining room.  "Good!  You all do very good in morning.  I learn all about abilities.  Here are training regiments for mornings for next seven days.  Afternoon you spend in class doing schoolwork.  Evening we do long runs around compound." He hands out pads detailing various areas you'll be working on.  For Kevin, the workouts are heavily focused on building strength, stamina and dexterity, along with learning how to attack effectively, while for everyone else, the workouts, while no less strenuous, are far more general in nature, more structured to hone skills and practice some advanced combat techniques.  X12 sees a lot of weapons training on his plate in the future. Along with Master Wen, both Li Wen and a person named Xi are listed as trainers.  X12's first session in fact is with Xi, tomorrow.  Xi appears to be the weapons trainer, Li seems focused in the areas involving dexterity over strength, while Master Wen seems to do it all, but particularly is in love with fitness training. You also note that Monday Nights are labelled as "Wrestling Night," while Saturday's are listed as "Team Excersises." "You have any question, you ask Master Wen any time.  I go help train Jackal in afternoon in second dojo, so you not go in there, but any time Master Wen not there, you ask him.  Like now!" he says, sitting down and helping himself to a small portion of food. Feel free to talk in either portion of this... just listed both <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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