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Katara ([personal profile] markofthebrave) wrote2010-11-13 02:07 am

[ 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.]
wise_maiden: (never taking the easy road)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-16 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
... Get stuck? [That just pings her as odd. She hadn't quite gotten the detail's of Katara's situation before.]
wise_maiden: (we should talk more about this)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-16 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say I've ever heard of an effect doing that before. How...?
wise_maiden: (where did i go wrong)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-16 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
And there's... no real warning for when it's going to happen either, right? That's quite a lot to handle.
wise_maiden: (how long must this go on)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-18 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Is it painful?
wise_maiden: (you've got hungry eyes)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-19 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds like you have enough to deal with without that happening as well. [She goes quiet for a moment at Katara's direct question. At least it's filtered now, even though she's still not exactly comfortable with admitting it.]

... Sometimes. [Most of the time.] My magic seems to have been sealed off.
wise_maiden: (we must face the choices we make)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-19 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a pleasant feeling. Especially without knowing how long it will last... but all I can do is manage until then. [And Katara is right. It's unnatural. It's bad enough just heading into the tunnels temporarily - but at least then there's an explanation for the dampening.]
wise_maiden: (looking for the truth behind those eyes)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-20 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[She's quiet for a moment, as she considers the girl's soft words.]

... hm. That might not be such a bad idea. I normally use a staff, but I've been without a weapon while waiting for a new one to show up. [And she's not about to risk using that... evil one that Sokka found.] Though it might be better once we're both - not as affected by our circumstances, anyway.
wise_maiden: (waiting to change)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-20 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, exactly.

That's true... I suppose just using an ordinary one would be fine for practice, anyway.
wise_maiden: (open your heart to the thought)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-20 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Then that seems fair to me.
wise_maiden: (by the lives that i have loved)

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[personal profile] wise_maiden 2010-11-22 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Understood. Hopefully it won't be much longer.