<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>Ensign Maira Snowpaw &amp; invisble Friends</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Working Out or Working It?</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging:</strong> </td><td>Ens. Snowpar &amp; Open</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Sofie had been bending forward to tighten the straps when the diminutive brown-haired woman came over and asked to assist.  Snowpaw had been an entire set of classes ahead of Sofie at the Academy, so Sofie didn't know her.  She also had not run into Snowpaw officially and hadn't been to enough junior officer social functions to recognize who she was.   A mere nod signaled Sofie's assent and she waited, hands on her knees and torso clear of the board while Snowpaw settled herself into place.  Honestly, Sofie wasn't sure the slight woman had enough mass or strength to be of any real assistance, but if she did that would make up for the troublesome straps.<br/><br/>She had a pretty face, almost elfin in appearance.  Sofie wondered if she was pure strain human like herself or a mix between humans and some other extraterrestrial race.  There were more and more of those every year and often the results were individuals who possessed startling beauty.  Snowpaw certainly had that, even with the slight blemish of the beauty mark.  And she had a kind demeanor, as if radiating some inner energy.  Wherease Sofie was often said to possess the expression of a human wall.  When Sofie was sure Snowpaw was ready, she nodded again the lowered her body and began the exercise.<br/><br/>Ten.  Twenty.  Fifty at a steady pace.  Then Sofie, assured that Snowpaw could handle it, took a deep breath and began to put maximum effort into them, moving as quickly as possible.  Her back barely touched the board each time before she threw it into motion upwards.  A double dozen passed in a blur, then another and another until somewhere around one hundred she felt her muscles just give out and almost cramp.  A deep exhale came and Sofie closed her eyes, resting limp on the board as the pain in her belly spiked then began to turn into a delicious burn.  From time to time a muscle involuntarily trembled.<br/><br/>The tall woman rolled off the board and wiped it down then looked at Snowpaw and motioned for Maira to take her own place on it.  "Thank you," she said.  "Your turn."