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Today's reading material: a book on rock climbing. He isn't sure he needs to learn to climb rocks in order to climb the mountains outside, but new knowledge never hurts. And he is finding that some of what the book suggests isn't that far removed from the sorts of things he picked up over the years.

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There is a flash of movement across the rafters.

Role reversal for Charlie as he looks up and tries to see what there is to see.

He may see a sparkly costume somersault over his head.

He wonders who that is. Some new hero? Only one way to find out.

He climbs on a table and jumps to a rather convenient rope that often dangles from above. He pulls himself up with ease if not grace. And then climbs onto a rafter, and gives his eyes time to adjust to the dimmer light.

She somersaults back and lands in front of him.

"Hallo."

"Carlotta. Hi. Rehearsing for something." No, not a new hero (yet).

"Keeping in shape." Carlotta says with a nod. "It's exams soon, so I don't have a specific act to work on."

"You don't usually practice in the sequins, though." Not surprising that she would, however.

"I bought a new costume. Some of what I've been trying to do is difficult in a dress and reveals my underwear."

He stifles a laugh. "What are you adding to the repertoire?"

"Couple of extra twists and somersaults and things." Carlotta says. "It's less than a year until I hope to be out in the field again."

"Getting any time in the real ropes? On the trapeeze?" The rafters is good for his sort of workouts but not hers.

"Yes, outside." Carlotta says. "But not at school. We're not getting a lot of free time at the moment."

"Because of finals. I remember that unique delight." And even the surprisingly good grades.

"Yes, we work hard and play hard, but a lot of the play hard is structured, as it were. We have set games and swimming times, for example."

She sits down properly on the beam.

"We're supposed to be having a dance on Saturday, but Mirabel has made us postpone it for a boring sports meeting."

"That sounds like a total mistake. What sort of sports?" Not that he preferred any to a good, er, dance, when he was a teen.

"Lacrosse mostly. She's become sports captain and gone power mad. I don't know when she's doing her exam work."

"I didn't know that they played lacrosse in the UK." They barely play it in the US.

"Probably not in your time." Carlotta says. "But it's common in schools in my time."

"No, I just didn't know it made it across the Atlantic.

"Did you know it's the national game of Canada." Despite that other sport with the ice skates?

"Maybe we gave it to you?" Carlotta suggests.

"I didn't know that, no. I don't know any canadians."

"I learned that along the way. Just another useless fact, I guess.

"I have been to Canada, though. Interesting place." Where his high school French was useless, for one thing.

"Not all that useless, if it entertains." Carlotta says. "How are you?"

"I'm...pretty good. Had a good Cubefall, at least." And good return to his usual self.

"What did you turn into?"