Hanahi could feel the bark of the tree through the back of her shirt as she sat under the trees in the early morning, the sun only being up for an hour at this point. Her legs were a bundle of pain, and the question came to her, just why was she here, no one else was, the entire week's training had been canceled but she was here alone still training. Taking the bottle of water that was beside her she emptied its contents over her head, the coolness of the water making her shiver. Shaking her head to clear the cotton that was filling her mind. Taking one of her books out of her bag she crossed her legs to take some time in the early morning to study while letting her legs rest. In truth she wished could have just watched the clouds and yet now she was reading about Japanese history until she felt like running more laps, in a shirt that was soaked in a mix of sweat and a litre freezing cold water that she'd dumped over her head, completely oblivious to the world around her.

Sophia wonders the last time she got a full night’s of sleep. However, then she remembers being chloroformed a few days ago. Evidently, not too long ago, but it sure as hell wasn’t restful. She looks groggy as she carries a cup of coffee. This wasn’t a habit that she had before. Now, she was drinking it black. The half-asleep girl walks absentmindedly across campus, trying to get her thoughts in order as to what to do today. She had some more books to read from the library. She had people to save. She had a war to prepare for. She had…

Sophia doesn’t really see the studying green-haired girl until she is too close. Attempting not to trip over her, Sophia falls to the side, spilling her coffee on the ground. “Sorry!” she says. Her eyes look over to the coffee, and she frowns. “That was the only thing keeping me awake…” Her luck this week.

It wasn't until Hanahi felt her leg tense from the hot coffee splattering on her bare thigh that she looked up to notice Sophia who had fallen. With Sophia's apology Hanahi was about to assure her that everything was alright, but before she could Sophia was bemoaning the loss of her coffee, and it occurred her that this girl might have been talking not to her, but rather to the spilt coffee. She closed her book and put it down beside her, away from the ever expanding pool of coffee. Moving towards the fallen girl, she moved over on her knees while her still wet shirt clinged to her body, leaving her midriff exposed. "Are you ok?" She asked her voice soft, not wanting to startle a girl who could be injured or possibly sick. It was nagging on her that this girl looked so familiar, and was obviously a student her, did they have a class together, she kicked herself, it'd been months and yet she was still having such a hard time keeping track of all her class mates, so many of whom had been in classes together since they were in dippers.

Sophia smiles at the girl, “Oh. I’m fine. I didn’t hurt you, did I? I’m just… running low on good sleep. Can you believe they let me join the arts program and allowed me to dance? Here I am tripping over myself.” There was no reason to worry about her. She’d been through worse in the last week than falling on the ground. She sits up, and realizes that she doesn’t know this person’s name. “I don’t think we’ve introduced each other before? Sophia. A pleasure to meet you, and I apologize for disturbing you.” Eventually, she notices that the other girl is dripping wet. Why was this girl soaked? “Aren’t you cold? Do you want my coat?” Sophia begins to shrug off her grayish blue jacket and hand it over.

"I'm sure you're a fine dancer." She reassured the girl, despite her apparent two left feet. When the girl introduced herself to Hanahi, she let out a small sigh of relief, so she didn't know this girl. "I'm Hanahi, Hanahi Anto. I assure you the pleasure is all mine." She gave her a smile. When she was asked if she was cold she looked down at herself, realizing just how much the shirt was sticking to her body. She pulled it down to cover the skin it had been leaving bare, though try as she might, it still clung to her more than she would have liked, but there weren't any boys around to ogle her, or worse take pervy pictures of her.
She shook her hands when she was offered the jacket. "No no, I couldn't and it's not even all that cold." And with that the fate conspired with a errant beam of light caught her eye causing her to sneeze, and then sniffle a little. She gave a half smile knowing that it was unlikely she'd be able to convince the other girl that she didn't need the jacket, even if she was totally fine without it.

Sophia keeps trying to hand over the jacket, especially now that the girl sneezed. “It’s seriously no problem. Besides, it hasn’t risen above freezing in awhile now, and I’ll be fine in my uniform.” Underneath her jacket, she wears a white blazer and pleated skirt with black trim and black stockings. She has a purple ribbon around her collar, denoting a member of the arts program.

She keeps cheerful despite the urge to face plant into the ground and start sleeping. Damn, now she understood how Yuki could always find a way to sleep. She yawns a little as she goes through her backpack. Books… Oddly enough, the psychology textbooks didn’t make a bad read. “Honestly, I should probably study too, being here so early, but what brings you in so close to dawn? Part of any team?”

Meekly when it became clear that Sophia would not take no for an answer on the issue of the coat, Hanahi took it from her and draped it around her shoulders, feeling the girl's lingering warmth in it. "Thanks." She smiled at her as she said it.

"Oh you know." She pointed at the track that wasn't too far from where they were sitting. "Habits are hard to break, and normally track is going on right now, so here I am." With that she gave a shrug. She couldn't help but notice the colour of Sophia's ribbon, and different from her jade ribbon, though the same as her sister's. "I am, 5 and 10k, plus lead climbing and bouldering. I suspect they just want my life." She said dryly before cracking a small smile to let the other girl in on the joke. "Oh, and I keep getting told that I should try the three thousand metres as well." When Sophia got one of her books out Hanahi picked her book back up and leaned back against the tree, only half reading out of her book. "What about you? What do you do with yourself? Draw naked people?" The last part was a tease, or at least half a tease based on the number of magazines with naked individuals her sister kept to study out of, where the only difference between that and a porno rag was the publisher, and in one or two cases not even that.

Sophia looks up at the track. That made sense. The girl looked like she was a sprinter. “I forgot that the sports teams always come in early to practice. And I’ll be honest. I’ve never used the track outside of gym class. Lead climbing and bouldering? However, if they want your time, it must mean that you’re one of the faster people on the team.”

Sophia mostly fiddles with her own book instead of reading, staring up at the sky above. She turns beet red at the mention of drawing naked people. Why was this a recurring topic for her lately? “No… I… ummm.. Singing, acting, dancing. Like musical theatre. I know a painter though… Do they really do that?” A mental image of Kousuke asking Amarissa to paint him like one of her French girls pops into her head before she shakes out. “But yeah, I’m more a fan of the stage. There’s something thrilling about entertaining a crowd of people.”

Hanahi could feel the goose bumps covering her as she pulled the jacket tighter on her. "Uh, they're types of rock climbing, in lead you have to attach the rope as you go, and with bouldering you go laterally instead of vertically with no rope." Her explanation was shorter than it really should be, but she hoped that Sophia would get it since if she didn't the only real way Hanahi had found was to show people just what it was. "Ah, I'm not that great. Sometimes it feels like we have more events than people some days, and it's not like I'm the lead runner either. I'm somewhere between third and fifth depending on which track event."

She leafed through the Kofun period of her book, she can see Sophia turning red from her mention of drawing nude models. She did her best to fight a small devious smile. "Don't they? I mean that's what all the films and plays about artists tell me they do." Hanahi wondered now if it had always been this cold outside, her legs were still aching, and it would be far too rude to just jump up and leave this girl now. She pulled her legs up to her chest and continued to leaf through the book, all the while redness seeping into her legs first, though it wouldn't be long before it entered her arms and then her face. "Does our school have a musical coming up soon? I know there are schools out there that do one or two musicals a year." She didn't go so far as to ask if she was going to be in it, but she felt it was implied in her question.

“No rope. That sounds kind of dangerous… I’m fairly sure I’d fall and hurt myself somehow,” Sophia muses, “But I’m thinking of really large rock walls. I guess, if it is smaller, then it would be less of an issue though.” Still, she’s pretty sure that she would freak out without the safety of a harness. She wasn’t normally afraid of heights, but the thought of it made her uncomfortable. She shrugs, “I normally find most people are their own biggest critics. I’m sure you’re a solid member of the track team.”

“Y-yeah, I guess that is true,” Sophia says, her eyes cast downward. She needed to get away from this topic. She thinks back to the schedule. Did they have a musical coming up? “Not that I know of. However, I’ve never gotten the lead role to date. I can land a good supporting role though. I’ve been told I do my best work when I’m trying to getting the lead to shine.” She sighs, “I’m not where I’d find the time to try-out for one though.” She starts to notice Hanahi’s face becoming red. “Do you want to head inside? It’s definitely warmer than out here.”

"It's really not that dangerous, the highest you ever go is only about six metres up, and usually you're a lot closer to the ground, plus it's not like they have concrete for you to fall onto." She felt her body shiver a bit as she finished speaking.

Hanahi didn't bother bringing up the drawing any more. "Oh, it's too bad that you're not currently in one. I've, uh, never actually seen one in person." She wasn't sure why she had added that in, while it was true, she didn't want to seem like some uncultured savage. She could practically feel her teeth chattering at this point as waves of shivering moved through her body. "I'm good, but if you want to go in, we can. It is kind of nippy out here." She could have kicked herself, why was she acting like such a jock, just because this girl had a purple ribbon on, what was wrong with her. Her legs were still hurting, if they hadn't been she could have just run a bit to warm up, but not with how she felt right now.

Sophia raises an eyebrow, “Are you fan? It’s actually not terrible uncommon to not have seen one. It’s not like school plays have a large turn-out. And a lot of people don’t enjoy musicals that much. Well, Takarazuka is pretty big. Yet, I doubt I’d be lucky enough to get into the Takarazuka Music School. They’re all talented, and if you don’t mind a long train ride, they are worth seeing.” Broadway and Takarazuka. She’d seen a lot of both on video. The latter, she had seen live a few times. Sophia repacks her bags and heads toward the entrance of the school. “I don’t think I’ve seen a track race actually, but I guess that is obviously since I didn’t know what bouldering entails

"Um, I might like one about a certain French Revolution. But I don't know if I could be called a fan." She felt awkward, and it was only made worse when Sohpia pointed out that she could just go and see a show if she was up for a train ride, and if she was like Sophia, she likely would have gone to many shows, but to Hanahi that was an expense that she simply couldn't afford if she wanted to make rent, though she did wonder just how many times Sophia had managed to go. "I, couldn't go alone, that's just too scary." It was a lie of course, but she couldn't think of a better reason to explain away why she had never gone before, when in truth she would have loved to.

She packed up her book and stood up with Sophia to get to the warmth of the school. It was plain to her that Sophia didn't know about track and field or the differences between that and climbing. "Uh, boulderings not that complicated, you have a wall you need to get from one side of to the other without touching the ground. It's kind of the like that game you play when you're a kid, you know the one where the ground is made of lava." They were walking towards the school, Hanahi still had Sophia's coat draped over her. They were getting closer to the school and more and more the thought of jumping into a warm shower was filling up her thoughts, along with being dry afterwards. She shook her head, focusing back on Sophia "Oh! I never asked, what brings you hear so early?" She looked over at the other girl, and then despite herself asked. "Putting a love letter into someone's shoe locker?"

“Les Miserables?” Sophia suggests, slipping into a French accent. “Yeah, that one is one of my favorites too. However, I still put Chicago up there too. It’s the one my mom loves, and that sort of rubbed off on me.” She nods about the 5 hour trip being scary to go alone. “True. I’ve went with my family the couple times I have gone. I’m not sure how many people I convince to go with me really. And I’d have to save up some. Tickets can be pricey.”

Laughing as Hanahi talks about the lava game, she says, “I suppose everyone does that as a kid. Alright, that sounds more like something I could get into.” Opening the door for Hanahi into the school, she blushes again when she says putting a love letter in a shoe locker. “No. It would kind of be my luck though if I was for it still get lost somehow, or crushed, or left behind, or they would say yes and then change their mind a second later. Kind of how my life works.”

Hanahi gave a nod as Sophia asked about the title, and couldn't help but feel a twinge of pain in her heart as Sophia mentioned her mother, and getting to know what she loved, something that Hanahi could only dream about, knowing a woman who she'd been taken from at birth, and had died when Hanahi was only five years old, or so she had been told. "They're really expensive aren't they?" In her mind those tickets could have been made out of gold bars both seemed to be just as much out of her reach.

As Sophia held the door open for her Hanahi hurried into the building, the warm air enveloping her body. She smiled when Sophia said bouldering seemed like something she could get into. "I can show you some time, if you'd like." She paused to wonder if there was any reason she couldn't "I can show you any time it isn't being used by someone in the sports programme."

As Sophia spoke about her lovelife, or rather how she saw it going Hanahi made a noise in the back of her throat. "Aww, that's so sad. How could any boy turn you down? I'd love to have someone as sweet as you give me a love letter." She paused for a moment. "You don't have a brother do you?" She teased, hoping Sophia wouldn't take offence. She changed out of her shoes and cast a glance towards the change room, not sure if Sophia would follow her or if they would go their seperate ways now.