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[Comic] play your cards and run the races

Summary:

Shane's about to go for a run. He texts Ilya, who responds right away. Short full-colour comic.

Notes:

Comic drawn traditionally and coloured digitally.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Text reads as follows:

1:02PM MONTREAL
9:02PM MOSCOW

J: What's your 5k time?
L: What. Why are you asking
J Going for a run after lunch. I need some motivation
L: I thought you run with Hayden Pike
J: Usually, but Hayden has family stuff

J: If you run 5k I'll beat your time
L: It is 9PM in Russia
J: Oh, right.
J. Tomorrow?
L: It's fine I will do it

Svetlana: Are you coming or not?
Ilya: No. I'm going to the gym.
Svetlana: What? You're going to work out now? Why?
Ilya: *shrugs* See you later.

1:38PM MONTREAL
9:38PM MOSCOW

L: At the gym.
L: Are you going to race me
J: Both start at 9:45 your time?
L: OK

L: Done
L: 22:06
J: 21:46
J: I win :)
L: Yeah OK, sure
L: So you are looking for reward?

J: I'm not.
L: I think I know what you want ;)
J: Shut up.
L: 😘

J: Thanks for the run.
J: Have a good night, "Lily".
L: Have a good day

Notes:

Prompted by this quote from the Sens' Tim Stützle re: training with Claude Giroux:

"I mean, we go at it in the summer, too. Last summer he texted me at like 9PM German time. He texted me, hey can you go run 5k for me, because I wanna, like, check times, and he knows I'm probably better than him, so he wanted to push himself. And I went to the gym at like 9PM and ran 5k for him, and I beat him pretty good and he wasn't too happy about it. He didn't believe me, so."

(Clip is here on YouTube.)

Comic title inspired by LOVE IS A GAME by Lights, which is very Shane/Ilya. imo.