markofthebrave: (Dance | It Takes Practice)
Katara ([personal profile] markofthebrave) wrote2010-09-10 12:06 am

[ Action, Voice ] .028

[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.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Like things she doesn't want to talk about. Mercury shakes her head.]

What matters, is that I remember here when I go home. So the same things won't keep happening there.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[To beg Katara to drop the subject, or use this opportunity she'll probably never have again?

...She has to know.]


Do you know what I did to them?

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure? It's very important.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's alright. I'm sorry if I was too forceful in asking.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
They say we forget here when we go home. So won't I go back to being like I was before, if I really forget?

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's why I have to find a way to remember. I'll give myself that 'smallest thing'.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
I have some ideas. I'll work on them.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess you could say that. It was Usagi-chan.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-12 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's why I have to solve this.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-12 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I appreciate it, a lot.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2010-09-12 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Katara, did I do something to you, too?