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[markofthebrave]

[Should you be passing by the bridge between the clinic and the Item Shop on this fine, finally-a-break-from-the-heat afternoon, you will notice that there has been a certain change in the landscape. A large wall, seemingly made out of one solid chunk of earth has appeared by the riverbank and painted white. At varying points in the day there may also be some spheres, pyramids, inverted pyramids appearing beside the wall... and that white wall is on its way to becoming multicolored.

There by the wall is a large sheet and on it rest pretty much every container of water-soluble paint found in the Item Shop, mainly strong primary colors. There are balloons and small buckets and bowls, and just about everything you could want in order to throw paint at a white wall.

Random passerby, what do you do? Continue on your way and hope not to get splashed with mud, water, or paint? Stop to wonder at this strange work of 'art?' Or if you don't mind getting your hands dirty, there does seem to be more than enough paint...]



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[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

[Now what questions would you have, Katara? Surely you don't have questions for the girl who has red paint all over her hands and is currently eying a swath of wet blue paint.

After a moment of intense deliberation, Temari scoops a handful of red paint and sweeps it through the blue, in long strokes.]

[markofthebrave]

[And Katara's own hands go SPLAT against the wet paint.]

So how are you feeling?

[Tact. She has it. Somewhere.]

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

[Temari stops mid-motion, her hand resting lightly in a patch of brilliant blue paint. Then she shrugs and keeps swirling that paint around in broad motions.]

All right.

[Still can't quite get her chakra up to snuff and do anything, but not hurting. Just feeling a little... empty.]

[markofthebrave]

Mmm. [Yup. She got that.]

They're not supposed to last for more than a few weeks.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

[Temari doesn't stop idly moving the paint around as she answers.]

Yeah, I know. I'm fine, really. It just doesn't feel quite right.

[markofthebrave]

[Katara shudders.] I can imagine. It's bad enough being at half-strength. But when I had to go into the tunnels it was like losing a sense.

[Oh look! She went from making it a Big Deal to turning it into casual common ground.]

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

[Casual common ground it is. Temari can work with that.]

It's not so bad, I guess. Gives me an excuse not to spar or practice.

[But Temari's never been the lazy one. She's trying for a silver lining here.]

[markofthebrave]

Maybe you should look at it as an opportunity. [Katara bends down, dips a hand in some green paint, and starts flecking it at her design.] They already have us at half-power here. You never know if they could take it away completely, permanently. Now might be a great chance to train and exercise skills that you have which you don't normally have to use.

[That's why she picked up weapons-fighting, after all.]

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

You may be right. [Except she actually has been sort of doing that, when she's not moping.

Not that Temari ever mopes.]

Makes me wonder, though. [She swirls the paint around, mixing the red and the blue until she manages a vibrant purple.] What's the endgame, tinkering with people's abilities?

[markofthebrave]

[Katara frowns.] I'm not even sure they know. None of it seems to make any sense.

[She thinks of Chouji's chakra system; Sokka being given Buffy's abilities...]

Sometimes I think they do things just to see if they can.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

That's an answer I'm willing to take. [Except not really -- there has to be some plausible endgame -- but Temari is unwilling to get into it.]

[She scoops up some of the purple paint she's mixed and smears it into a bright yellow streak.]

You should do this more often. [Oh the mess she could make with her fan...]

[markofthebrave]

You think so? [She wasn't sure people would have liked it... but she'd hoped they would.]

Well, maybe we can set it up someplace else and announce it so people will know it's there. We've still got a lot of wall to cover...

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

Nothing like making a mess. Why do you think kids play in mud?

[markofthebrave]

[Grin.] No idea. Maybe the same reason that kids play in the snow?