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""So, the last couple of weeks," Rosa started, rolling her shoulders a little, as well as her head, to sort of get herself in the yoga mindset once it was time to get class going; she shook out her limbs a little, "I've tossed around the term 'eight limbs of yoga', which refers to a lot of the conceptual stuff, and we've covered two of them: pranayama and pratyahara. But since none of us are about to reach samadhi in a seven-week summer course, we're going to be spending the rest of our classes focusing on asana, which are the various physical postures. Your poses and moves, that kind of thing.

"We've got a wide range of abilities in this class," she noted, "so I'm sure some of you will struggle with these while some of you could do them in your sleep. The former, I want you to just focus on understanding the poses and how they work and just doing them. The latter, work on refining the poses and just focus on your pranayama and pratyahara. We'll start, as always, with our sun salutations, and then we'll get into some new poses to start working into your practices."

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Nell laughed. "So humble! And you're welcome. I can tell you've been practicing. I've been doing it myself sometimes. Up on my roof. Either in the morning or at night under the stars."

Anyone walking at night could probably see her silhouetted up there.

"See, and all's I've got is pretty much our balcony or the beach before we start our lap around the island." Gladio's grin softened with a touch of envy, although it had maybe a little less to do Nell's rooftop being a nicer location and a little more toward the bees that'd get to keep her company while she did it. "That's good, though. That sounds nice."

And nice and open, too, rather than hidden in between clothing lines like he remembered her telling him about.

"Well, maybe sometime you could... I mean, if you wanted..." What did she want to say? Was it too forward? "I mean... there is enough space on my roof for two people. If sometime you wanted..."

She was blushing again, wasn't she? She was, she knew she was.

And Gladio knew she was, too, because, well, he had eyes that worked. As well as a grin he couldn't keep off his face and a slight shake of his head for wondering how he was expected to balance both yoga and that level of endearing cuteness...

...not to mention the knowledge that it probably wasn't just a certain shyness or bashfulness behind these blushing invitations, but breaking down a whole lifetime of indoctrination...

"I don't know about that," he said, grin still in place, but softer. "I'm a pretty big guy, I can take up enough space for two people pretty easily..."

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She smiled over at him shy, but sweet. "More room than I had between my drying sheets back home. You'd never have fit there. Plus, your head would have stuck out the top." Which was a funny enough image that she had to laugh a little.

"I think there's enough room on the roof without having to worry that one of us will fall over the edge."

"Well," said Gladio, shrugging a little into his next transition of the warm-up, with a soft smile for the thought of Nell placing him there in her memories like that, and for the wildly complicated knot of thoughts and emotions it revealed itself to be if you looked at it even a little bit too hard, so he just looked over at her instead, "only one way to find out for sure, right?"

"I suppose there is," she said blushing a bit more. "So, any time you see me up there you can just come up the back stairs and knock on the roof door."

Gladio nodded. "I'll definitely keep that in mind," he said, thinking he might need to work a few more casual evening strolls around the island into his routine. Every once in a while. "Thanks."

"I see you all sometimes in the morning when I'm running," she said with a smile, "But all you all run so fast I don't think I could keep up."

"We've been at it for a while," Gladio allowed, "and you had to be pretty quick, if you wanted to outrun daemons and behemoths. But don't feel too bad. Pretty sure the only reason Prompto can push himself to keep pace is just because he knows if the faster he it, the faster he'll be done."

"I can only imagine," Nell said. "Guess I'd get faster then, too, running for my life and all."

But she couldn't help but smile at the idea of Prompto running fast just to get done sooner. "I s'pose it works, whatever your reason is."

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