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[markofthebrave]

[After a romantic evening where they innocently fell asleep together, Katara wakes up first. It takes her a moment to place why she's outside. They always fell asleep fully clothed when they were traveling, so that was nothing new, but why was someone's arm is wrapped around her waist? And when she does remember, Katara absolutely freezes.

She feels sick and deeply violated, and she's not sure she's ever been more humiliated in her life. She can't turn around and look at Zuko -- she's just going to move as quietly and stealthily as possible, out of the tent and as far away as she can.

Regardless of whether or not she succeeds in escaping without waking him, as soon as she can she is going to find a quiet place on the outskirts of the village, hole up against something, and lose it.]


Worst. Town. Ever.

[After she's done crying and has tried to pull herself together? ...she knows she really should find Toph. And she'll get up to do that, eventually. Feel free to stumble across her as she's finishing up crying or as she starts looking for Toph in the late afternoon.]

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[earthrumblegod.livejournal.com]

Hey. [I love conveniences! They make the RP go 'round!] Nice morning, right? [Toph has not, in fact, spoken to Sokka. At all. She figures that his talk to her means that it's not real for him, so any attempt on her part to talk to him at the moment would be painfully awkward.]

[markofthebrave]

Yeah. [Her voice is dry as sand.] Peachy.

[Katara doesn't really have a game plan here. It's just nice to be around someone familiar who isn't male. And she wants to give Toph an outlet if she needs one.]

[earthrumblegod.livejournal.com]

...None of it was real, huh? Figures.

[markofthebrave]

I don't know why it would figure. [She crosses her arms defensively.] I never heard of anything like this before.

...and it didn't seem that unreasonable.

[earthrumblegod.livejournal.com]

I was talking about myself, Katara. [Makes perfect sense for you to go swooning over the cute young men. Toph being mushy, not so much.] ...Well, that was a stupid waste of my time! [She says this brightly, like she doesn't care. Really. She doesn't care. This is all hilarious.]

[markofthebrave]

[She sighs and moves to lean against a tree. She's just going to be ignoring your words and talking instead.] Worst town ever.