markofthebrave | [ Action, Voice ] .029

[For no very specific reason at all, Katara is happy this late afternoon. The air is getting colder, and the very fact that it's nipping at her face is enough to make her smile. Add to that the glorious storm of yesterday, that it is still drizzling...

It's started drizzling as she runs her errands in town, and she puts a hand up to bend an 'umbrella' above her head as she walks along. She forgets herself, though, as she comes to some large puddles in the road, and dropping her hand, stares at them for half a beat.

Well, she's already wet.

So she jumps in. Not bending at all, simply splashing about in the puddles along her way.

Feel free to catch her in this rare display of immaturity and glee - or even join her! Hopefully she won't catch a cold.

Much later, as she prepares dinner for her house, she makes a voice post.]

Anyone else looking forward to the change in the weather?

[OOC: I know notifs are so so down. Please ping me on AIM if it's been a while and I haven't tagged!]

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Well...at least I know what it is.

The first time I was in a desert... I can't say I liked it very much.

Neither did I.

I thought you grew up there?

No. Just been there so long, might as well have.

I grew up in a coastal city, actually.

Oh, that's right! I should have remembered that. Surfing, right? Or was that just something your other did?

No, I surfed too. My parent's house was actually on a cliff overlooking the ocean. My friends and I would spend a lot of time out on the water.

[She grins.]

That sounds really nice. Our village was right by the ocean too, but... it wasn't often the kind of weather you wanted to go swimming in.

Really cold, right?

[Yes, he does pay attention.]

Yeah. But we all had to learn how to swim anyway - you couldn't go fishing unless you could take care of yourself if something happened.

[It makes for some fast swimmers, let me tell you.]

Best way to learn. Might not be comfortable, but you'll definitely understand the necessity of swimming.

So...a fishing village, then?

Well no, not exactly. We'd fish, and whale, and hunt.. but a lot of our resources came from the sea.

Sounds like you had a lot of choices.

[She smiles. That's the first time someone's had that reaction before. It makes her happy. Even though Katara grew up in what most people would view as near poverty and a step away from starving the whole time... she thought of her culture as rich.]

We did all right. Especially when the men were there to go whaling. We would use every part of the whale.

That's good.

...Was it all seasonal?

The whaling was. They'd leave right after the ice starts to break up in the spring. Tiger seals migrate too, but sometimes the men would go hunting them if we started to run out. [A quick smile.] The fish never went anywhere. We could even go ice fishing in winter.

[Which is mostly... what they had eaten for the past two years.]

I've done ice fishing.

Really? Where?

Here, actually.

I was taught a while back, though, during a job that actually took me where there was lots of snow and the sun was only up for about four hours a day.

...'Bout froze to death.

[She grins at that.] It sounds like home. That's the hard thing about ice fishing - having to stay still. Did you remember to layer up?

Believe me, they couldn't get me out of the base until I had every sweater I owned on under the coat. Dunno how you 'snow people' do it, really.

You can't just layer one part of you, you know. You have to do the whole thing.

[Grin.] But maybe I'm just used to it.

Well, yeah. But I only had two pairs of pants.

And that, too.

So what were you doing where it was so cold?

...I never told you what I did for a living?

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