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Gym. Yoga. Mat. Corner.

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[pandion]

Andi finds two seats together a little ways in from the aisle, halfway up, and plops down. "Huh, I think it'd be easier to learn which queens are on what or whatever than colors if I moved to England."

[hold_infinity]

"Maybe," says Robin. "But only because you grew up with this bullshit."

[pandion]

"Maybe. Or maybe I'm just good with faces? I can draw, kinda."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah, could be."

[pandion]

"Caricatures really, not realistic anything and not anything except people. Maybe I'll draw caricatures for a living when I grow up, I don't know. What do you want to do?"

[hold_infinity]

"Rock star," she says immediately.

[pandion]

"Ooh, what do you play?"

[hold_infinity]

"Guitar. I sing, too. Don't know how good I am at either, but it's fun."

[pandion]

"That's awesome. There's a choir at school, they're not any good but it's something."

[hold_infinity]

"I will die before I join a school choir," snorts Robin.

[pandion]

"Aww, why?"

[hold_infinity]

She shakes her head. "Not my kind of music, not my kind of fun."

[pandion]

"Are you going to try starting a band, then?"

[hold_infinity]

"Maybe someday."

[pandion]

"Sometimes I think about learning an instrument but then I think about all the little seven-year-olds who can play ridiculously well and it just feels embarrassing to start."

[hold_infinity]

Robin shrugs. "Everybody starts somewhere, right?"

[pandion]

"Yeah, I guess. I also don't know what I'd pick up."

[hold_infinity]

"Figure it out, and you could be in my band," laughs Robin.

[pandion]

"Well, what do you need in your band?"

[hold_infinity]

"Drums. Bass. Any instrument that's not a guitar," she laughs.

[pandion]

"Isn't a bass a kind of guitar, bass guitar?"

[hold_infinity]

"A bass is a guitar like a square is a rectangle," says Robin. "Except even less."

[pandion]

"Oh. Hmm. I wonder if Renée can even afford lessons for me in anything, which one's easier to self-teach and cheaper to rent?"

[hold_infinity]

"Maybe bass? Or something weird, I could always use something weird," says Robin.

[pandion]

"The triangle! The didgeridoo! The sousaphone!"