markofthebrave | BACKDATED to July 3rd [ Action, Voice ] .049

[Today, Katara sleeps in far later than her custom - in fact, she won't wake up until around one. No one in the house particularly wants her up, and when she does wake she feels as if a platypus bear has been playing kickball with her head. Everything is stuffed in cotton. And then some remaining memories of the past few days filter in through the pain, and suddenly Katara doesn't want to wake up.

She rolls over and finds her journal, blinking the lights from her eyes.]

Did you ever wake up feeling like you owed half the village an apology?

[She shuts the book, having overestimated her ability to do and be... anything. Everything hurts right now, and it's only several hours later when she'll get up out of the bed and make responses to anyone who may have responded back to her post.

If anyone in the house feels like ministering to a girl with a hell of of an experimental hangover, she'll be in her room and then in the kitchen, holding her head in her hands as she drinks water. It doesn't seem that Nala works for hangovers, and her concentration is way too shot to try to fix her own headache.]

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[ She tilts her head. Was she remembering wrong? ] Your birthday's in a few days, isn't it?

[She blinks rapidly.] Oh! You're right! It is!

[Somewhat sheepishly-] Sorry. I'm still used to it being in January.

Oh, did you adjust the calculations to have it make sense for here? I can see how that would be disorienting.

[She nods.]

Sokka did it when we first got here. He had me thinking I was late to Nami's birthday party and -- oh no, what's today's date?

Hm? It's the third.

Oh - it's her birthday today.

[Man, she's going to have to do something.]

Is it really? I had no idea. [And now she'll have to do something, since it's been a while since she's talked to the orange-haired woman. Hmm.]

It feels like time's been moving really fast.

A lot has gone on in these past few months especially. In hindsight, it seems even quicker.

Yeah. [A small sigh.] Thanks for checking in on me, Raine. But I think I'm gonna lay down for a little bit, and then I have to go... see a friend.

[See Shikamaru. Because Chouji got sent home the day before, and now she knows, and her life sucks.]

... I understand, Katara. I'll see you again soon.

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