markofthebrave | [ 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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[Momo, on the other hand, has decided that this person is very interesting. He scampers on over and tilts his head at Wolfwood curiously.]

[Wolfwood crouches down, looking the creature over. He's never seen an animal quite like you, Mr. Momo. But he fishes around in his pocket and unwraps a little wafer-like cookie, just for you. Aaah, the memories. |D]

How about this, then?

[And at the same time, he looks up, curious.]

Practicing... Is that kind of stuff common in your world?

[Momo takes the cracker. Sniffs at it suspiciously. And then stuffs the whole thing in his mouth. Mmmm, cracker.]

Well, sort of. Not exactly like what I was doing. But there are a bunch of other waterbenders in the North Pole.

Waterbenders, they're called... hmm... Sounds like a real interesting place you come from. When we were talking about snow—you said your home has a lot of it, right?

[Momo, finishing the cracker, has decided to see what else this strange guy who's feeding him as got. First, he will try the puppy-dog look.

Don't you want to feed me more?]

[She blinks, not really understanding the direction of his question.] That's right - there's always snow on the ground in the South Pole.

[A shrug in your direction, Momo... Sorry little guy, I'm all out of crackers. :(]

Aaaah... Is there such a thing as snow bending?

[He can't help it, he's a curious kind of guy~]

[Momo refuses to accept this - or would, if he hadn't suddenly been distracted by something shiny over to the side. He goes to investigate.

Katara, meanwhile, smiles and holds out her hand. A small bit of water starts to chase itself around.] Snow is just another form of water.

[And as she speaks, the water chasing itself in her hand turns to ice, mist, and back to water again.] If you move it without changing it, then that's just another way to use waterbending.

[He itches his stubbly chin with a free hand, perking a brow.]

So you can even change the temperature of what you're working with, too... Can the filial spirits do that, or is it something exclusive to these 'benders' from your home?

Sona can do a lot of things benders can. [Not - everything. But she's not going to talk about the differences.] I've got a complete contract with her and I use her to supplement my bending when I really need the extra strength. But the control isn't as precise and you can't use as much water with Sona.

Sounds like Luceti's power cap can be a real pain in the ass.

[She nods.] It's like going around with one eye closed and one hand tied behind your back.

[He huffs, but is smiling nonetheless.]

I guess the more supernatural or magical stuff really got gypped. I'm a normal joe, so the land didn't really do anything to me... besides piss me off when these experiments have been popping up.

[She shrugs a little: There's no one here that Luceti really treats well - but at his next words she looks at him with concern.]

Was the last one hard on you?

Me?

[He wrinkles his nose, a small smile crossing his features.]

...Naaah. I've had worse problems than a few little images popping up, trying to scare me. None of them were too bad, either—I think I'm one of the lucky ones there.

Good. I'm glad to hear that.

[She, on the other hand, was mallynapped for the extent of the experiment. Yay?]

[SPEAKING OF WHICH]

And how about you? Doing all right since that mess?

[She tucks a strand of hair behind her ear and glances away.] I actually... missed this one.

[A pause.]

...Kidnapped, huh?

Sorry to hear that—you okay?

Yeah, I'm all right. The after-effects should be running out soon.

['course. She also remembers it perfectly and kinda... was not treated very well. But the worst part was coming back to finding out that Aang was gone, and Zuko was kidnapped.]

After-effects? [He asks despite his own realization that it's probably a little painful; after all, it wouldn't help at all, to mask it. Not here, where it could matter.]

[She responds by depersonalizing the question.] Usually when the Malnosso grab one of us, we end up coming back with some of the effects of their experimentation still hanging on. It usually takes a few weeks to get rid of them, sometimes longer.

I know that. [He says it with sympathy underlining his tone.] ...I meant yours. They've been getting better?

Oh. [Pause.] I think I've still got a little while to go before it's done. It's nothing too bad, just - annoying.

Aaa... That's good, then, getting something that's not so bad.

[But he'll only pry as far as he thinks is fair.]

Other than that, been having a good day?

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