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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Summoning rain, snow and other sorts of precipitation, would be the easiest term, I think. [Not to mention command over winds and calling forth lightning.]

Oh, wow.

[There's a pause here as Katara just... considers the implications of that.]

[Storm's even got the Avatar State look down pat, Katara. Glowing eyes and everything. Wait til you see it.]

[Right now, though, she just chuckles a little bit.]

It's a rather useful gift.

I'll bet. Do you come from a part of the world where there's a lot of growing things?

[She is thinking this is clearly the best gift ever for farming, and betting Ororo's not from a desert planet like Vash, but hey - you never know.]

I'm afraid New York doesn't have as much nature as I'd like... I do keep a garden and a greenhouse, however. [And, well, Africa is sort of like a desert. And they did kind of make Ororo a worshiped deity because of her powers.]

New York... [Nope, doesn't ring any bells.] Is that the name of your world?

A city. Our world is simply called Earth - one of many versions, as I am coming to understand.

[She has to ask:] Your Earth doesn't have two moons, does it?

Two moons? No, I'm afraid not. [What an odd question.] Does yours?

[Sigh. Maybe one day.]

No... I'm not from an 'Earth.' But one of my first friends here is, and her world has two moons, so I just like to ask.

[And now to engage helpful mode.] You're pretty new, right? Are you here on your own or did you find friends here?

Yes, I arrived just yesterday. Two of my students are here, thankfully [or not thankfully], so I'm not alone.

Perhaps you know them? Kurt, and Kitty?

[Those names do, in fact, ring a bell!]

Yes, I've met them! They're very nice! I'm glad you've got some people here from your world. It's - hard. But it makes it a little easier to have people who understand.

[A smile tugs at Storm's lips.]

In a way, it makes things a little easier to grasp. It's still a bit much to take in, but... It's wonderful to hear that they've made friends, at least.

Well, they're both very nice. And a lot of people in Luceti are very friendly.

[So why wouldn't they make friends?]

[because it's not easy being hated and feared by people you are sworn to protect!]

Yes, I'm finding that that's true with every person I meet. I've yet to encounter anyone who hasn't tried to help.

The ones that don't usually make it pretty clear.

[Along the lines of 'Oh, I can't wait to taste your blood' or 'BOW BEFORE THE ALL POWERFUL AKU.']

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[voice] oh good, I thought 'Ro scared Kat for a second there |D

[voice] No, just the perils of tagging late at night ^^;

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