markofthebrave | [ Action, Accidental Voice ] .032

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[ Action, Accidental Voice ] .032

[For the past almost two weeks, Katara has been struggling to regain her balance - even struggling to want to regain her balance. Aang's second return home hit her hard, on top of Zuko's mallynapping and Toph's return... Toph who doesn't remember. It's good to see her, but it's terrible as well. Now more of them are trapped in this horrible place. And she still hasn't been able get back to wearing her regular clothes because the 'phasing' keeps happening, as randomly and as annoyingly as ever.

It's been almost two weeks since she's returned and her shoulder hasn't been in any pain in days. The experience of having her bending completely taken away in the Malnosso facility was one that's almost beyond words, and now that she's back where she can feel even just half herself again, the desire, the need to bend has been growing under her skin like an itch.

She can't take it anymore. So Katara goes out just after dinner to one of her favorite practicing spots between her house and the barracks, and begins by doing very simple forms that don't require a lot of movement. She pauses when Momo finds her and sits down to take a break.

It's not long before she begins talking to the lemur about their adventures. It feels good - to talk to someone about home, to talk about all the things that happened, to remember who she really was, despite what this place wanted to make her. She doesn't notice when Momo knocks the journal opened when he moves to chase after what could be a fallen nut. ~~He might not be the best listener ever.~~]

--Sokka sent Aang in to steal the book. Remember riding on top of Appa's back so Aang and I could shape the clouds? It was too bad that we had to go through all that just to get them to listen to us. So after we made the skull in the sky, we dragged out Aunt Wu to see it - the sign for volcanic doom. Then the villagers listened. All the earthbenders worked to dig trenches and everyone else grabbed shovels to help out as best as we could.

And then when volcano exploded, we got back as far as we could, but it flowed right through--

[There's some excited chatter by the book, and suddenly the picture is filled with this face. It flickers from voice to video and back again.]

Momo, what are you doing? Get away from that!

[The video shows Katara shooing Momo away from her journal and then automatically shutting it. She gets back to her practicing, but will open up the journal later and see that it accidentally recorded. Way to go, Momo.]

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[Katara blinks.]

Oh?

[She thought she gave you a pretty good overview. She didn't know you wanted the DETAILS, man!]

Maybe just a liiiittle~ [you can't see it, but he's widening a gap between his fingers as he says this. Or maybe you can see it. He sould make everything video]

[Well, if he didn't switch it over to video, he can't SEE her shrug and smile at him, but he might be able to hear it in her voice.]

If I'd tried to tell you all the things that we saw and did, we'd have been out there all day.

Aaaah! I would not have objected to the company of a cute girl for such lengths~ [Complete with a mock-swoon and a little laugh]

[Katara rolls her eyes.]

You would have gotten bored, Masaomi, admit it.

Kata-raaa! I could never get bored of a lovely girl like you! [DRAMATICALLY!]

But maybe a subject change part-way through the day would be good too.

[She laughs a little. A very little, but hey, it's an improvement over hardly being able to laugh at all.]

Point taken.

[and now that he can't be ridiculous off that last bit, he droops a bit too. Mikado showed up and... Anri's gone. He's still not sure what to make of either of these facts, really]

Neeh, Katara, maybe you should show me your bending sometime.

Well, I just finished practicing for the night... [Please don't let Chopper hear this.] and I should probably let my arm rest. But in a few days, I'll be back to normal. You can come by any time then!

You arm? Why would you need to rest it...?

Oh. [Uh. Let's see if she can pull this off without alluding to her mallynapping. There may be a brief-yet-conspicuous pause here.]

It got pulled out of socket. Chopper reset it, but he said that the best thing to do would be to rest it for a while.

This Chopper guy must be talented, right?

[Bullet dodged? 8D?]

He is! He's one of the best doctors here. He's really good with Nala and he was a doctor before he came here.

Aaah? Ah! That's good to here, Katara-! [Okay, getting back his gusto now]

[She smiles. Whew.] I think it's been better for a while now - once I was able to work on it, my healing works differently than with Nala - but you want to be really careful when it's something that could throw you off in the future. It's just frustrating to not be able to practice like normal.

[She almost feels bad for all the times she yelled at Zuko when he was injured and kept getting up. Almost.]

Practicing it is that important, huh...?

[Her voice is full something deeper here that makes the simple words mean more.] It is to me.

Besides, I might be pretty good at it [read: downright awesome] but there's always room to get better. There are specific forms, but bending is an intuitive and creative art as well. The more familiar you are with the basics and even the more advanced forms, the more you can call on when you're in a fight. And the more you practice pushing the limits of the forms when you're not in that situation, the more you'll be able to see what works and what doesn't.

[Also, it helps with the reflexes, makes you faster, stronger - and is, for Katara, like a virtuoso sitting down to their most beloved instrument.]

[...HM.]

Not to mention, all that hard work probably helps Katara maintain that Nice Body!

[WHAT.]

Masaomi!

[Seriously, what.]

[...then again, that didn't feel - like with Jet and that book. Just - uncomfortable and weird.

...and he is blond and strange and like this with everyone.]

[But still.]

That's not usually one of my concerns. And it's not any of your business either.

[And that is hella mild compared to what she could have said.]

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