markofthebrave | [Action, Accidental to Purposeful Voice] .033

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[Action, Accidental to Purposeful Voice] .033

[Well, Sokka was his Avatar alternate again. That alone is enough to call for some alone time, but with the news he brought... she definitely needed some time to clear her head. Fortunately, there is a public service she can easily perform. If your house is still snowed in? There is a waterbender digging you out. For about half the day, she is her normal self.

...sometime around two, though, she starts feeling lightheaded. Realizing she'd unintentionally skipped lunch, she heads back towards the center of town. As she walks, she starts feeling heavier and heavier. Something's wrong. Katara reaches for her journal to call for help, but it's too little, too late. She falls face first into a snowbank, the journal falling opened beside her.

When she opens her eyes, her hair is blocking her vision. Longer and unbound... her clothes feel almost painfully tight across the chest and she gasps a little.]

What? Where am I? [A deep breath, and slightly louder, as if she's expecting a response:] Aang?

[Sitting up, she shakes her head, one hand going to her waterskin... and that's when she notices the wings. Her eyes go wide.]

Is this... I had dreams like this...

[Standing up, the picture shows her body at an angle. She's certainly grown. After glancing around a bit, she reaches down to pick up the journal.] I remember... this... feels too strange not to be real...

Hello? I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, but... I'm Katara. I think I remember this place... and a girl with reddish hair and... what were they called? Not oranges... something else. And there was someone - a man - with white hair and he went "Oooh?" a lot... and I remember... cigarettes and cooking and... [So many, many more. Fragments of a dream - a man who stretched his face, a skeleton playing music, a reindeer that danced... an ice dragon... green hair and white hair in front of a classroom and... shadows, dreams, fragments of things... flying people and conversations over tea and a wolfgirl and so, so much that only made sense in dreams...] And -- I don't know. Does this make any sense?

[But even as she's talking she's starting to walk. These clothes are too small - it looks like she's on a path. Let's see where it takes her.]

((OOC: Katara is now in her early twenties and from a happy canon projection. Tags post-transformation from

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[He shrugs. Adults can be so weird like that. To him it's just the obvious one.]

[She's perfectly willing to sit there and cloudgaze for a while, and then...] Come on. It's too cold to just sit here like this. I guess you've been staying with me for a while? Let's go inside and make hot chocolate.

Mm. Me and my friends.

[He sighs.] Getting up is so troublesome... Do you make better hot chocolate than you did when you were eight?

[She winks at him.] I do a lot of things better than when I was eight.

[Pfff. She's amused.] And I was pretty good at that then, if I recall.

It was okay. I think my mom's was better. [Don't tell her he said that.] But I guess it's worth testing out.

[Oh-ho, she thinks she's been insulted.] Do you like marshmallows or cinnamon in your hot chocolate, Shikamaru?

[Another shrug, as he finally makes the motion to rise out of his position on the lawn.] Making decisions is troublesome. Whatever's easiest.

[He's just happy to be getting cocoa. 8D]

[She takes this with good grace, despite being momentarily miffed.]

Well, all right. But remember - if you have a choice and chose not to take it, you lose the right to complain afterwards.

[In you go, kid. Did you say your 'friends' were staying too? Katara wonders just how many people she's going to have to cook for.]

[He gives a nod to this to show that he's heard, a habit he's developed after a lifetime of living with his mother.

If it had been something he really didn't like, he probably would've said something. Far as he's concerned though, cinnamon and marshmallows are both good things, so if he gets them he can't lose either way.

Then again. His friends might not look at it that way. Well okay. He doesn't really care about Naruto and Shino's opinions so long as they're not troublesome about it, but Chouji...]

Are you making some for everyone?

I don't know - is everyone inside? In that case, it would be only fair.

Umm... I think so. Though it's kinda quiet if Naruto hasn't run off somewhere. [...Which is never a good sign. D:]

Naruto? [She barely remembers him...] He's loud, is he?

[Into the house, off with your coat and dirty boots, kiddo.]

Yeah, that's him. Troublesome guy. He can be annoying sometimes - [And here he wiggles his feet out of his boots, taking care to keep his balance] - but he's nice and can be a lot of fun to hang out with too.

[That's the most positive thing she's heard this kid say since she met him.]

So you're pretty good friends. Who else is staying here?

Besides the people that were here when we came? Just me, Naruto, Shino, and Chouji. [And since you don't seem to remember them that well, he'll explain.] Shino doesn't talk a lot, he's kinda creepy actually. But he's a good guy. And Chouji is my best friend. [Which by default makes him awesome.]

[The honesty of a child is refreshing. And Katara is amused.]

What's so creepy about Shino?

It's kinda something you have to see for yourself. [He's not about to give away the guy's clan jutsu if Shino doesn't plan on using it soon. As for the rest of Shino's creepy habits, it's not something he actually judges the boy on.] But don't worry, it's not the scary kind of creepy.

[She has to physically stop herself from laughing.]

That's very reassuring.

[But she's still very amused. Confident adult is confident.] Why don't you see if anyone else is interested in hot chocolate? If not, we'll see what we can whip up for the two of us, all right?

All right. [Thankfully he wasn't sitting down already, otheriwse he'd have to get get up again. And that would be troublesome. It's troublesome just how many things are troublesome. ANYWAYS, he goes off for a bit, but will return a few minutes later after he's found everyone.]

Naruto and Chouji are playing, but they say they'll come and get some soon. Shino doesn't want any. [Turns out the guy doesn't like chocolate.] He says he'll take some juice if you have it though.

If Sokka didn't drink it all, we should have some, yes. [She starts taking out the ingredients, casually streams the right amount of milk into the pot on the stove with one hand.]

Are you hungry?

[He shrugs, taking a seat. It's kind of interesting to watch her bend things - she did that too, before she was an eight-year-old for a day. He's not used to seeing people use their abilities so casually.]

Not really. Chouji will be.

Mmmm. [And she hums a little under her breath as she starts getting out bread anyway.] I am.

[Ever had toast with peanut butter and cinnamon sugar, kid?]

[No. But like most small, grumpy children, he is hesitant to try new things.

That doesn't stop him from watching curiously though.] Aren't you supposed to make peanut butter sandwiches with jam?

Jam is too sweet for me right now. And the cinnamon will go well with the hot chocolate. [Popping the bread into the toaster, the chocolate into the lovely simmering milk...]

If you say so. [The voice of someone going 'I don't think so, but'm not arguing'.]

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