fandomhigh | Ungulate Yoga, Tuesday, period 1

After spending pretty much all day yesterday in bed, after getting back from Ibiza, Duke was looking forward to a nice, ordinary day. Or, you know, as close to one as you could get in Fandom. So when he saw the zebras hanging out in the clearing for class, he didn't even blink.

"At least you all have hooves. Just try not to trample my students, alright?"

The zebras grazed idly, ignoring him.

"Let's get right to warming up please," Duke said when the students arrived. "Today we're going to try out some bound poses." He very specifically did not look at Danny ~~if he was there~~ when he said that. "A bound pose is any pose where your hands are connected, and you twist through your shoulders and torso. They require a fair amount of flexibility, so I don't want to see anyone pushing themselves too hard, here. You need a prop, you use it. I've got pillows, bolsters, blocks and straps up here. Remember: a good stretch means no sharp pains. If it hurts, stop."

One of the zebras came over to try to eat Duke's hair. He closed his eyes and sighed.

"Also there are zebras. So . . . yeah."

At least he wasn't stoned this week.

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Thinking zebras, not horses!

Ask how to use the props, maybe. Or wonder what exactly made Duke think of bound poses this week.

Try your hand at bound locust pose, or maybe a nice bound forward fold. Or get fancy and give noose pose, one-legged king pigeon pose, or the pose dedicated to the sage Marichi I a shot. Because who doesn't want to give their internal organs a "healthy squeeze"?

He's working his way towards Marichyasana II, himself.

Or would be if the zebras stopped trying to eat his hair.

In what was getting to be something of a regular thing, Liam showed up near the end of the class with a coffee for Verity and also one for Duke.

... Also a container with a few pieces of jalebi that he'd managed to save from last night's dinner (he was so stopping by JGoB and T&C for cheese and cake on the way home, shush).

Look, Duke had clearly been having a rough time of it the last couple weeks and... Liam worried, okay.

"Hey." Slight smile as he held out the coffee.

“Hey, man.” Duke managed a faint smile of his own in return. “I promise not to let the zebras trample your wife.”

Because that was clearly why Liam was here, yes.

"I appreciate it," Liam snickered. Not that Verity wasn't perfectly capable of keeping herself un-trampled, but Liam could appreciate an attempt at banter when he saw one, okay?

“That’s the job, man. I’m. . . apparently an animal wrangler now.”

"If you end up with raccoons one week, just make sure to keep them out of the liquor." Liam advised. "They're worse than the squirrels."

Mostly because the raccoons made the damn stuff themselves, so it was strong enough to strip paint.

“I’d say ‘those aren’t ungulates,’ but we had porpoises last week. So who knows.”

"I mean, if they didn't let not being allowed to brew their own booze stop them, I don't think that would be much of a roadblock," Liam pointed out.

Freya Crescent

~~Rosa~~ Emily Diaz

Karolina Dean

Danny Williams

Yeah, while ignoring a particularly curious zebra, Danny was just gonna judge the hell out of this particular lesson. Judge it until he couldn't judge it anymore.

It could be a while.

Danny held back until the rest of the class cleared out and it was just, you know, the zebras. Which wasn't weird at all. Zebras.

"You okay?"

“Us? No. The moose on the other hand. . . .”

Duke shot him a bit of side eye, as though looking for an ulterior motive.

Because he was.

“Peachy. You?”

Karolina had missed last week's class due to her own school stuff on the mainland, so her attempt at making a habit out of her yoga practice wasn't going super great, just yet.

But this was a new week! And she'd learned from her past goat-related mistakes enough to have put her hair into two braids for this class. But that... didn't really seem to be stopping the zebras from experimentally trying to nibble at them while she did her best with the bound locust pose.

So, Karolina had missed last week's class, but she had not missed several things on last week's radio.

And she wouldn't have been herself if she hadn't made a point of checking in on Duke just a little, so... She came over, towards the end of class ~~but in a way that didn't conflict with Liam or Danny obvs~~.

"Hey."

Edited 2020-05-26 13:25 (UTC)

His ulterior motive was to make sure Duke didn't have a nervous breakdown in the middle of town. It was very insidious.

"Oh yeah, just love having my gun pointed at me," he replied with all the dry sarcasm he could. "No. What is wrong with you?"

Everyone wanted to check on him! It was a little disconcerting.

“Hey. Nice job with the locust pose. Mostly.”

“It’s been a week, man. Get over it.”

He’d also spent the weekend drunk in Spain and had a fresh shark tattoo on his arm.

Because he was so over it all.

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