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Characters: Dinah Lance and OPEN
Date: July, all after Clueventure
Location: Wood Sector, and wherever you need her.
Situation: There are ideas and commitments that Dinah started before being distracted by detective work. Now she intends to follow up on them.
Warnings/Rating: Blood, wounds in the Arthur thread.
I started with prose, but will switch to action if you'd like.

General Starter: She found it in the wood sector, a courtyard formed by four trees growing from each corner, growing and intertwining together above, walled by hedges that have been growing out since the last master left. As soon as she had a spare morning and the presence of mind to do so, it is here Dinah returns.

She keeps the name and cleans first the sign painted so neatly in Chinese: “The Jade School of Kung Fu, overseen by Grand Master Shifu.” She doesn't know what happened to the Grand Master, but a dojo cannot be left unused, and she plans to honor this Master she never met by returning his space to the use it was intended.

She sent messages to the people she knew were interested in training with her, to let them know where they could be found, then she set about trimming the hedges, sweeping the building and the courtyard, and transforming it into a usable dojo again.

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"That depends on what people would be interested in learning," Dinah says, with an easy smile and a just-as-easy one shouldered shrug. "The original owner clearly wanted kung-fu, so I thought I'd start some Hung ga and maybe Shaolin. But I started with Judo, so I'll probably throw that in with some basic self defense."

She pauses long enough to look up, around the trees above them.

"Any of that sound interesting?"

"Judo," She confirms, smiling brightly. She doesn't know much about the rest, but grappling wasn't a bad start if she wanted to learn something without having thr bring a sword around at all times. "Gotta start with something familiar, at least."

"By the way, the name's Traci. Since I'm gonna be a potential student anyway."

"Judo."

Dinah's smile brightens with the idea of going back to her roots. "Sounds perfect. "Hi, Traci, I'm Dinah."

She's heard the name 'Traci' before, and at first she assumes it's a coincidence. But this Traci seems to be about the right age, and Jaime may have mentioned something about her being there...

"You don't know Jaime, do you?"

"Great," And really, she was about to continue to ask what she should expect, bring and the likes when it comes to that when Dinah asks the question. That earns a calmer smile, almost affectionate, at the mention of him.

"Jaime Reyes? Oh, I definitely know him." At least, she doubts any other Jaime here knows her. "We're dating."

Dinah smiles wider, and definitely more warmly.

"He may have mentioned that a couple of times. We work at the same mechanics in the Metal sector."

"Uh-oh. I hope he hasn't told you any embarrassing stories about me." She doesn't seem too bothered by that, though she's a little surprised to hear that from a person she considers a stranger. Cute, Jaime. Cute.

"That explains how you know him. I didn't realize you were also a mechanic, though."

"For all the embarrassing stories he told me I can guarantee he heard at least twice as embarrassing tales of Green Arrow."

Secret Identities? They're in a dojo. She's hardly being a florist right now.

"I've been known to have gearhead tendencies. It was really the quickest and cheapest way of getting a motorcycle of my own."

Green Arrow? Well, it's not hard to guess who she is based on that. It wasn't really much of a secret who they're both dating. She snaps her fingers at the realization, beaming.

"Black Canary. I knew I've seen you somewhere." Now that she knew what her aura looked like up close, it'll be easier to spot her from now on. "And I hear that. I'm kind of hopeless with the mechanics, so I just leave that to the experts."

"That's me."

She actually likes this, not having the secrets. It makes conversations so much easier, even if she won't talk about specifically how she met Jaime out loud.

"Still want those Judo lessons?"

There are only two ways to meet Jaime as far as she's concerned. Superhero business, or El Paso. Seeing as she's not from El Paso, it's probably superhero stuff, in which she thinks it's something she can let slide for another day, or if Jaime ever tells her instead.

"Of course. Wait, right now?"

"No, not right now."

Amused at the mistake, Dinah grins.

"I'm just checking. There's a difference between taking them from some random lady in Keeliai and signing up for... well, me."

"I'm guessing in either deal, I'm getting my butt kicked. I'd prefer to do it with a familiar face." Well, familiar enough for her, given at least she knows who this hero is. She trusts the League enough, in the same way citizens would about how good they are, so that's a plus.

"How much for a lesson, either way?"

"The previous owner was going for two juulan a session, or five a week if you come daily."

Dinah jerks her head back to where the sign is still not really clean enough to read. "I was thinking of keeping the same rate, at least to start with."

"I think my joints will protest a daily session, so I may just start out with an every other day thing, if that's okay with you?"

Two juulan a day was manageable, as far as she's concerned. She does odd jobs for a living, after all, just a matter of fixing her schedule to match it and have time to practice magic.

"Works for me," Dinah says cheerfully, beckoning Traci to her as she backed up towards the office. "Let's go get you on the calendar."

Traci has no complaints there and quickly follows, just glad she has found a suitable trainer now.

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And this might be a place to fade them?

Sounds good to me