For those of you who need a translator...

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Marinalia (Luna Sports Centre)
Marinalia was just talking though her eyes flashed to her phone keeping an eye on the time for her parking. As much as it was quiet you still had parking limits, and while the fine would not worry her as much as others, paying them was annoying if you had 300 or 300,000 in the bank. At least her membership let her park there and not have to squeeze into one of the side roads; or the private multi stories where you could barely park a moped yet alone a land rover. "Yep, I had a fair bit of leave from pretraining the current class. A suggestion became something more solid. Next thing it's cocktails in the sun." It was hard to explain, add Xia’s family from her mum to her dodgy uncle and it ended up how it ended up. "Yes, though you can usually see who is a good egg pretty early on." 

Holding back her desire to snark the comment, of course she knew. Did Lilith think it was her first relationship and she was going in blind. Well first in one way, but not blind. Some things did not change regardless of genders, people, ages or countries. The word twat, agh a classic, easily said and event without the full context easily understood for what it was. Alaska spoke, well they were different again. America states might as well be mini countries it seemed on regards to language usage. "Yep. Swim team coach was more like a sailor, and a pair of ex military uncles will expand your vocabulary. Especially if your starting to give up on a run." Maria was less pleased, Milo has calmed down since he had one kid and a second on the way though both could be a bit coarse out of their wives earshot. Especially when you were crazy enough to join in there exercise program. It worked though they helped her recover her fitness in their kind but slightly crude way post her major injuries. 

Sipping some of the last of her smoothie she relaxed with a leg crossed letting the energy recover and a natural fruity vitamin boost kick in. Answering with an easy smile,"I hope so, she helped me a lot. Snow. Cutely terrible. As long as not Jazz music. Bad experiences with Jazz. You never know." 

Far as random offers went that was a new one, everything about her morning seemed to have been getting ever more random. Lilith reminded her she had a few things to do, errands to run and a parking ticket to avoid. "No worries, I got some things to run plus it's so much harder to sweet talk American parking wardens out of a ticket." 

Throwing the smoothie into a trash can nearby and checking she still had her gym bag where it was. Slotting the card into a pocket; and the case into a slot in her handbag. "Thanks, who knows what lies in the future. Fancy, have a good day Lilith" 

The wink, she was... 

How did you describe that woman! Handing her a small card with a local contact number as a return polite gesture with a simple flowing single silver line making her initials on the face and writing a number on in fountain pen with a looping hand. It was only polite to least offer. The cards were blank and her go to thing for everything from noting down minor appointments, short few item lists or just a bookmark. They were not mega fancy. Just a handy little thing to have. It was easier than hanging onto an old Sol bucks receipt. Her more private number was only known by family and a fairly short list. Thankfully Vika was a bit of a genius at times and set her phone up to operate more than one number; including a disposable one or two in her at times handy paranoia over redundancies in tech. 

Smoothing out her skirt, standing up and doing up the pale blue jacket she headed out after grabbing her gym bag, just outside the door she looked over to see a stalking parking warden lurking by the white land rover Discovery shaking her head. "Nope... 10 more minutes... Nice try though. Better luck next time" 

Happy she won that small moment of life, no one likes parking wardens... A small blip, and she was climbing in and throwing her gym bag into the passenger floorboard, hand bag on the seat and firing up the White Land rover. 

Onward, things to do, places to be, a city to explore. 
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