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markofthebrave) wrote2010-09-10 12:06 am
markofthebrave) wrote2010-09-10 12:06 am
Entry tags:
- *chouji,
- *diana,
- *kurt,
- *mercury,
- *nephry,
- *san,
- *sapphire birch,
- *zuko,
- au! not fun,
- finding peace where i can,
- homesickness sucks,
- just a girl,
- kya is a hero,
- last waterbender of her tribe,
- let's do this,
- life is so simple here,
- message in a bottle,
- messing with a little girl's dream,
- might need something stronger than soda,
- out and about,
- push and pull,
- skipping stones ftw,
- things can always get worse,
- water adapts
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[So today? Katara cuts short her usual routine with a cheerful wave and ducks out on her housemates. Aang showing up pushed so many things out of her mind, and now they were all crowding back in, along with the strangeness of Zuko's return.
She misses the Straw Hats. Going camping right now sounds wonderful. And she really wants Aang to meet them! She thought about trying to contact them over the journals, but... didn't really want to interrupt. Besides, it was better... to get used to people being gone.
She can handle this by herself. Katara is not given to introspection, but at her favorite spot by the South bridge, Katara has gathered a fair amount of smooth stones, and is alternating between stone-skipping and staring at her conversation with Nephry. She only knows one way to deal with this, and that's facing it straight on and adapting.
Water is the element of change. Water adapts.
And so, to find some way to remind herself of this and gather up the courage and mental clarity to sort things out, Katara will eventually step off the bridge and walk a ways beside the river. Once there, she closes her eyes and very slowly begins to practice basic forms, the water streaming about her in constant change and accompaniment to her thoughts, until she can almost see it in her mind's eye, overwhelming the flames.
Much, much later, she takes a seat, and makes a filter. She only hopes that she truly means what she says.]
Nephry, it's Katara. If you'd like to meet sometime today, or later this week... I'm ready now.
She misses the Straw Hats. Going camping right now sounds wonderful. And she really wants Aang to meet them! She thought about trying to contact them over the journals, but... didn't really want to interrupt. Besides, it was better... to get used to people being gone.
She can handle this by herself. Katara is not given to introspection, but at her favorite spot by the South bridge, Katara has gathered a fair amount of smooth stones, and is alternating between stone-skipping and staring at her conversation with Nephry. She only knows one way to deal with this, and that's facing it straight on and adapting.
Water is the element of change. Water adapts.
And so, to find some way to remind herself of this and gather up the courage and mental clarity to sort things out, Katara will eventually step off the bridge and walk a ways beside the river. Once there, she closes her eyes and very slowly begins to practice basic forms, the water streaming about her in constant change and accompaniment to her thoughts, until she can almost see it in her mind's eye, overwhelming the flames.
Much, much later, she takes a seat, and makes a filter. She only hopes that she truly means what she says.]
Nephry, it's Katara. If you'd like to meet sometime today, or later this week... I'm ready now.
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You're very welcome. ...It's hard, isn't it? To think of the person you were that week as someone other than you.
That's initially why I wanted to talk to you. I was someone else, too. All those things she could do...well. I can't.
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[Wow. She hadn't even considered that.]
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Well. I can heat up a plate of chicken, still. And I wouldn't turn away a child in trouble.
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[She's struggling a bit with what it felt like to be powerful. So powerful that with a few words and a look she could do things with fonons that...but no. That's not who she is.]
But if that change allowed me to help you more than I would otherwise have been able, then it was for the better after all.
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[Pause.] Um. Can I ask you a question?
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[Because, sometimes? It's easier to talk to a kind stranger than a friend. And Katara remembers how you helped her.]
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Yes. As real as the ones I had before. ...In some cases, moreso.
[here she looks away just a bit] I don't remember everything clearly, so I know that the memories that tell a more vague story are the 'wrong' ones but...the clear moments are just as real as any others.
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...what stops them from being real?
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Sometimes I forget that.
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That makes sense. Because, I mean.. those things did happen. But they weren't.. [her hand reaches up to her necklace] they weren't what makes me who I am.
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[That's not working out so well.]
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The more that I think about it, the more I think I need to find a way to accept both of them.
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[Since she only knows the one.]
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