<div class="floatleft">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/13431d5efcebcc887d827079efd6f14a/tumblr_midmpmJE7E1rlxy60o1_500.jpg)</div><strong>Day 1 - 09:45 Hours</strong><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name: </strong></td><td>Ensign Sofie Doortje</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>F Deck - Gymnasium</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>No one</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Moving Mass</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging:</strong> </td><td>Open</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Iron born from a fusion reaction inside a star that exploded and made baby Earth moved smoothly up and down in the ship's artificial gravity field.  There were more modern ways to keep muscles toned and build them up, but Sofie always preferred the honest, primal method of lifting weights.  It was like the way she preferred her food; as close to natural and uncooked as possible.  It was just better for the body, more natural and healthy.  And it tasted better, like something that had been raised and felt the sun and wind instead of grown in a gigantic vat or industrial greenhouse full of mysteriously blue and eye-watering smelling liquid.  Oh, she'd eat rations and shipboard food and anything that was available in its absence, but a reconstituted carrot never had the same snap as one just hours out of the ground.<br/><br/>Sofie was without the benefit of a spotter.  It was a little dangerous, but as she wasn't lifting anything near her maximum, going for repetitions instead of burn out, she felt reasonably safe.  Breathing in perfect rhythm with the motion of the bar and weights, Sofie worked through a set of fifteen like a machine.  Each lift took precisely the same amount of time, used precisely the same form, descended to just kiss her skin before being hoisted up again.  At the top of the last rep, Sofie hesitated, holding the bar until her arms just started to tremble then let it down into the supports on the bench.  Smooth muscles in her abdomen flexed and pulled her up into a sitting position.  Sofie sat at the end of the bench, breathing slowly to cool down, then stood up and wiped the equipment down before wrestling the heavy iron plates off and putting them neatly on the rack.<br/><br/>On her way to the next set up, Sofie noticed another crew member working without a spotter.  This one though was not doing it safely and was near exhaustion.  His bar was wobbling, already off balance, and he was struggling to lift it back level.  Two quick steps brought her to the front of his bench and she put her left hand in the middle of the bar then lifted and twisted, the cords in her wrist stood out as she brought it back level then guided it into the rest.  "Be careful," she warned, voice a husky alto.  "Use a spotter next time."<br/><br/>The man nodded, sweating and a little shaken.  "Thank you.  I just wanted to push myself a little bit and there wasn't anyone to ask when I started.  And you didn't use one either," he pointed out.<br/><br/>Sofie just looked at him and didn't reply.  There wasn't anything to say in her mind, and so she didn't say anything.  Sofie wasn't trying to intimidate him, she was just being Sofie.  After a moments awkwardness, the man got up from the bench and went to one of the cardio stations.  One that conveniently put his back to her.  The whine of the motorized endless belt began then his feet started slapping against it.<br/><br/>The tall blonde moved to the inclined bench and hooked her feet in then started doing situps.  It would be time to go on duty soon, and she wanted the energy release of a workout before standing a post or making rounds or doing any of a dozen different things required of Security.  Some days they were glorified guards.  Others they had tactical exercises or team movement ones, or damage control or were just generally presences aboard the ship.  It was fairly light and majorly boring duty.  Perhaps they'd be given something to do planetside soon.  Sofie missed the outdoors, missed the feel of open sky and air that hadn't been breathed in and out a dozen times already.<br/><br/><br/>