"I've done it," Sahde says, smugly.

"You don't count."

"Yeah, I think you have to do it in an amateur capacity."

"Well fine but that's only because I don't know any blues socially."

Giggle.

"I guess I could hook you up at some fundraiser sometime this spring. But you'll owe me one."

"Ooh. We should talk about that again in a couple of months."

"Have fun."

There's more chat and more teasing and more eating until they've eaten everything and go on their merry ways. In Sahde's opinion, overall: this was one very successful date.

So, how'd you like Ohan?

he messages her later.

He's great! I can see why you're optimistic. I couldn't tell you for sure if I'd be inclined triangle or vee at this stage though.

Yeah, just one date is not enough to determine these things, but yep, optimistic.

I forgot to get his email to finagle scheduling my motion capture thing.

He shares Ohan's contact information with her.

Thanks!

Hey Ohan! Gym schedule in the part with the mats looks like so; let me know when would be good and if I need to be dressed in a specific way or anything.

He picks a time.

Gym clothes, loose but not too lose so I can stick the electrodes to your skin.

You got it.

Ohan is a couple of minutes late. There's a large rucksack attached to the back of his wheelchair, but it seems to not impede its functioning or movement in any way. "Awesome, you're already here. I should set these up."

"Sure, can I help or have you got it?"

"No I'm good thanks—is there somewhere to set a computer up, I brought a fold-up table but—" He looks around.

"Water bottle counter?" She points.

"Works." He rolls over there and puts his laptop on it and boots it up. "'Kay so I'll load up the program and it'll tell me where you should get the sensors on but I remember a couple of places..." He grabs his rucksack and looks for some of them there. They're a bit bulkier than the ones used in motion capture movies but all wireless.

She cooperates with the application of sensor objects.

Then they will soon be applied! More of them once the software's loaded and indicated where the remaining sensors should go.

"Okay, so now I want you to walk at a normal pace from one end to the other of this room. If you fall, try not to do any fancy rolling or whatever, just do whatever comes most intuitively. Unless you're at that point with the rolling, in which case just roll."

"I can splat like I used to if it's useful to splat."

She walks. It takes a few passes across the gym before she trips; she catches herself that time but the next time she does splat.

"It's useful to see what the software will have to be dealing with when trying to compensate for you so if you have any nonstandard instincts that's good to catch."

After a couple more passes he asks her to go at a moderately faster pace—not quite a jog, not quite not a jog.