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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Yeah. People that die from a specific kind of infection, and come back. Only, at least on my world, it's not really them anymore.

They need the blood to keep going. Buffy's a slayer...we have...similar jobs, but she's got a lot of advantages over me, and we've got nothing like her where I come from.

[...she's not exactly sure this is a 'Let's talk about it on a public journal' topic.]

That sounds pretty scary, actually. [Not gonna lie, she's had to face actual monsters in the past month and they were really annoying. And to have someone die and then come back and not really be them anymore? That's horrible. That's worse than dying.]

What kind of infection is it? How do you catch it?

[Other than what's for Buffy to tell about herself, he doesn't have a problem if people listen in on this. Best way, after all, to explain his own condition...without telling anyone he has it. Just in case.]

Two parts to it; the first is viral, like a sickness. The second is...a bit more impossible to explain. It's a sickness of the soul. One that ends with the soul being devoured completely.

You get it by being bitten by a vampire, or getting a scratch that draws blood. At least that's how it works on my world. There's a few other ways, too, but pretty much, it all depends on the infection getting into the victims bloodstream somehow.

...all they have to do is scratch you?

[This infection has gone from 'being a bit scary' to 'straight up horrifying.']

'Fraid so. Gotta be real careful when you're dealing with them.

And you hunt them for your job? ...that sounds really hard, Derek.

Someone has to do it. And I'm one of the ones that know they're there, so.

I can understand that.

Hmn.

[Pause]

So what did you guys do for fun?

...well. When we were little we used to go penguin sledding and have snowball fights.

...Penguin sledding?

[Yes, he is indeed steering the conversation away from himself.]

Sure! Do you have penguins in your world?

Sure do. Most people don't live where they live, though.

Yeah, I hear that a lot. A few people don't even know what they are. But they're really friendly! And they're willing to give you a ride if you bribe them with fish. They can go so fast down the ice slopes...

Sounds cool.

Our penguins aren't...quite like yours, I think. Most of them are too small to ride, and they're all pretty shy of humans.

That's hard to imagine. [She shrugs.] But a lot of our animals are different than any of the other worlds I've heard about here. No one else seems to know what tiger-seals or badgermoles are.

Yours sound more intelligent, too.

Honestly, to me, it sounds like you're talking about four animals; tigers, which are big striped hunting cats, seals, which are finned mammals that live mostly in the sea, badgers, which are some sort of land...animal known for being feisty, and moles are tiny little mouse like creatures that burrow underground.

[Katara laughs.] Badgermoles are huge! They were the first earthbenders. They make these tunnels and caves underground that are just... amazing.

The animals bend, too?

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