Church of the Whiterose Complex

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

He nodded, blinking, and tilting his head. "Oh... okay... Um... I was asking if you could... help me put it on... I think I understand though, now..." He took one, doing as Dan had done, though more slowly. Dan had plenty of time to pitch in, unless he didn't want to. In which case, Shae just finished and looked up at him.

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

“Okay,” Dan said, going down on one knee in front of Shae and inspecting the harness critically, “the strap around your waist isn’t tight enough,” he fixed that, “and your ‘adventure straps’ aren’t clipped in.” He also fixed that, slightly embarrassed. 

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He nodded, biting his lip and blushing. "Thank you... are we ready to climb now?"

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

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Time to show off my climbing prowess. *cracks knuckles*

“Yeah, and I’ll show you how to tie a proper knot for it.” Dan put on his own harness, which he usually wouldn’t do, but he had to belay Shae, and walked over to one of the routes. He clipped the rope into his belay tool and waved for Shae to come over.

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Shae did so, curious as he listened to what Dan would tell him next. He was curious.

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Ah, I miss the days I used to go and belay. I was terrified, but I enjoyed it.

 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Dan took the rope that Shae would be using, and tied the right kind of knot, then showed Shae how to attach it to his harness, and how to finish it. 

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Shae nodded, following the instructions and smiling when he was finished. "Alright, what now?" He looked up at Dan, smiling. He had gotten over being over a head shorter than his boyfriend. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Dan pulled up the slack on Shae’d part of the rope, then nodded at the wall and said, “Climb.”

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

He nodded, smiling as he looked at the wall, beginning to climb up. He had to stretch and contort his body several times as he climbed to reach all of the hand holds, and he his arms and legs had gained a faint, pant burn when he reached the top. And he paused, smiling and looking around as he breathed. He almost let go, a desire he crushed immediately. Dan wasn't up in the air to save him this time. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Dan pulled up the slack and yelled up to Shae, "Lean off the wall and I'll lower you down." Most people were dead afraid of this part, not trusting the rope to hold or their belayer to not drop them to their deaths. Dan was quite experienced in belaying and had never dropped someone, so Shae had no reason to worry, and he'd explain that if Shae refused to get off the wall.

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Shae blinked, growing nervous and looking down at Dan. He almost asked if he was certain, but then he saw the confidence Dan stood with, the experienced stance he did with, and he knew Dan was certain. He bit his lip, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath as he trembled slightly and leaned back, letting go and imagining he was in Dan's arms. It helped a little. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

"I'm going to lower you now," Dan yelled at Shae. "Don't freak out." He lowered Shae, slowly, back down to the floor. "You okay?"

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

He nodded, sighing as he stood back up. "Yeah, I'm fine. It was just... new to me. I wouldn't have been able to manage it if I want used to falling from up to two thousand feet in the air. This was nothing- of course, I'm also used to you either holding me or being in the air to catch me, so it was still something." He breathed, then smiled. "So, your turn now?"

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

"You're not allowed to belay," Dan said, "because you don't have a license, so I'll just climb up and down one, since it's impossible to fly in a space as narrow as in here." He looked around the routes, then picked a five-nine because he was tired, and walked over to it, climbing up the wall with his arms aching like he'd stuck them in a bucket of ice water for five minutes. He climbed back down, almost jumping off on instinct, but managed to not kill himself.

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Shae smiled, watching him. He kept getting distracted by the easy Dan's muscles stretched and contracted, but always refocused on his head. He grinned at him when he was back down, chuckling. "So, would you like to be my 'trainer' for the next hour? I only just got here, but you look like you've already had a workout."

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

"I can do that," Dan puffed. "What're you going to do?"

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

He smiled. "Mostly, I was planning on running and pushups. I don't know how I should work out- hence my request for a 'trainer'. I'll do whatever you tell me to do for the next hour, as long as it's excersize or work out related. Then maybe I'll get a decent workout." 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

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I can think of a couple things that I could claim as ‘exercise related’

 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

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Just now, Blessing of Potency said:

I can think of a couple things that I could claim as ‘exercise related’

Aaaayyy.

"Okay," Dan said. "I happen to be pretty good at telling people what to do with working out, since I've had people to tell me how to do it my entire life. There is no rest when all of your friends are the children of soldiers, I tell you." He looked up from the ground as he rained sweat on it [yes, this happens] and up at Shae. "I'll tell you what to do, but what sort of workout are you talking about?"

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

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Yeah, sure, see how well that goes over...

He thought for a minute. "I don't really know. I suppose something that works all of my muscles... something you'd like me to start doing." He smiled. He meant that mostly in an innocent, 'whatever you think would help me best' kind of way, though it could be interpreted as giving Dan free reign to start body sculpting his boyfriend. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Dan looked Shae over closely and noted which muscles weren't up to par with the others, then said, "Yeah, okay, we're starting with weights." He brought Shae over to the lifting area and got his boyfriend working.

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Shae worked as Dan directed for the entire hour, going for as long as he directed, with as much effort as he directed, until it was done. By the end, he was exhausted, sweaty, and breathing fairly hard, but he grinned at Dan. "That was... fun..." He chuckled breathily, trying to catch what he'd run out of. "I'll meet you here... again, tomorrow... if you don't mind doing it... again?" 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

"Yeah, I'd be fine with that," Dan said, "though I go for way longer than an hour usually. Your face..." Shae's face was drenched with sweat, and it was impugning on his good looks, so Dan licked Shae's face thoroughly. He didn't mind licking up sweat, he'd done it maybe a billion times before. Tesans asked each other to do it all the time.

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[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Shae almost yelped, blushing as he stiffened and only managing to keep from making noise because he didn't want Dan's tongue in his mouth. Although... part of him did... he shoved the thought away. "O-okay... s-sure. Next time we can focus on more than just... what I need. I could run while you do most of your other stuff, then we could do the rest for the last hour." He tried to keep his mind away from the thought of Dan licking him. He already felt weird enough about it, and he was trying to accept it. He didn't want to think about it, so he'd just ignore it. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

"Sounds great," Dan said, then looked around. "Can you think of anything else we could do today, unless you have classes or something?"

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