[ Action, Accidental Video, Voice ] .054

[markofthebrave]

[Today, after the typical Saturday late morning house-cleaning and laundry doing, Katara heads into town. She's got grocery shopping to do, true, but she has another more specific destination in mind: The Flower Shop. You guys carry seeds for trees, right?

Thus armed, she will head back home, steal borrow one of Sokka's canoes, and head up to the nearest lake. Once there, she intends to use Faren to plant and strengthen the tree seeds in order to replace the tree she dessicated in her last spar with Shikamaru. She may even give into the urge to jump into the lake and go for a swim.]

[Accidental video:]

[In fact, regardless of whether or not there's company there for her to plant the tree or go swimming, the urge to just jump into the lake is one she is going to give into. The fact that it is an urge, though, prompts her to be less than careful as she strips off her waterskin, belt, and pouch which holds her journal, causing it to jostle opened as it lands on the ground. Fortunately, the fates are kinder to her than they could have been and the video function is not pointing directly at her. Just enough, though, to see her back as she shimmies out of her overtunic before Katara steps out of the camera completely. There will shortly be the sound of a loud SPLASH. And then the video just records the sky and perhaps a loud "EEP." That water is cold. This will probably be a very short swim.

Later, at home and over a cup of tea, she sets up a voice message.]

[Private: to Robin]

Hey, the experiment's over. When do you want to come over for dinner?

[If you hoped she would forget, masked man, your hopes were in vain!

As always, feel free to bump at her in town, on her way out of it, or even at home or the lake!]

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[action]

[wise_maiden]

[Raine happens to be puttering around the flower shop, making sure all the plants are healthy, and culling the ones that aren't. The out-of-season ones are starting to dwindle out a bit, but that really can't be helped.

Other than that, she's a little distracted due to some internal thoughts, so she doesn't immediately notice Katara's arrival.]

[action]

[markofthebrave]

[Entering the flower shop, Katara glances around before spotting Raine and calling out a bright greeting.] Hello, Raine.

[action]

[wise_maiden]

[She glances up at the sound of her name being called, and smiles when she sees Katara nearby.]

Hello, Katara. What brings you by here today?

[action]

[willfindigneel.livejournal.com]

[Natsu was wandering around town, still trying to adjust to everything. He's still kinda down about being away from all his friends, especially when they all had so much to catch up on. But, he was stuck here, and decided to try to make the best of it. He was attracted to the scent of flowers, and walked over. He stood outside, admiring them from the window.]

[action]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara exits the store, carrying her small sapling(s?) and calling back a cheerful 'Thank you,' to Raine. She pauses when she sees the unfamiliar face, and, mindful of New Feather Season, greets him.

...after shifting the saplings to one hand in order to be in a more defensible stance if necessary and doing a double-take at the color of his hair, of course.]

Hello!

[action]

[willfindigneel.livejournal.com]

[He looks back to her and gives a smile in return.]

Hey! [He looks at her plants.] I don't think I've seen trees like that before.

[Filtered]

[titango.livejournal.com]

[Yeah.. Actually he kind of was. Katara, what is all this Caring you're doing? Caring's supposed to be a home-exclusive comfort.]

Katara! It's a surprise. [And he's kind of flustered because really, nobody but Jubilee ever really calls him out on the journals like this.] Whenever's fine, I guess.

[Filtered]

[markofthebrave]

[She blinks at the book for a moment. Why would it be a surprise? She follows through on her word.]

Oh. [But you have been identified, Robin, as someone who may not be handling Luceti well. So she isn't going to just let this go without getting a date.] Well, you could come over today, if you like. Or tomorrow?

[Filtered]

[titango.livejournal.com]

[It's a surprise because prison dimensions aren't normally filled with the most helpful and selfless sort of people. Also, he's handling Luceti just fine, thanks.]

Have you run this past your roommates at all? I think your brother probably has enough weapons around to keep out unwanted visitors.

[Actionnnn]

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

[ Welp. Nami's circling over the lake at the point Katara decides to jump in. The bonus of having an overly friendly flying thunder duck who missed you that month you were gone; she's spending some quality time with him.

...crazy girl 8|a Not that she wasn't thinking of doing much the same down at the beach before the winter really hits. She'll land a fair distance away while Katara is freezing her ass off, though Biri's cacophony of kaa!ing are probably going to give away her presence.]

[Actionnnn]

[markofthebrave]

[Cold, cold, cold, COLD!

But she is not giving up quite yet, Katara dives in from her current position and splashes to warm up and--

--yeah, OK, that's a lot of noise. She pauses and glances up, her teeth chattering with the cessation of motion.]

Hey, Nami!

[...c-cold.]

[Actionnnn]

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

Hey. How's the water?

[Said with this total cheerful grin that says she knows damn well how cold you are right now.]

[voice]

[endgames]

[He was wondering why he couldn't find her in town today. He probably just missed her. Even so, he still catches that accidental feed over the journals and just... shakes his head.]

Having fun?

[voice]

[markofthebrave]

[It will be some time before she gets back to her journal. Like. Five minutes. Has she mentioned that water is cold? Hearing the voice come from the journal as she's in the process of putting on her pants - thankfully away from the viewer. She slips her tunic on before going over and...]

Oh! I didn't know this was on.

[Shiver. And she rubs her free hand down her opposite arm.] Sorry!

[voice]

[endgames]

[It's something he'd suspect, given it'd been snowing lately. You guys are all nuts, liking this weather.]

Don't sweat it. ...heh. Glad to see you aren't a popsicle.

[action]

[blackteriques]

[Walter is at the mouth of the river where it begins to open up into the lake, looking out over the water contemplatively. It's hard not to notice the canoe from the angle he's looking at the lake from, but it takes a moment for him to recognize Katara and raise a hand in silent greeting.]

[action]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara is on her hands and knees planting the tree up the bank. When she sees Walter's wave, she straightens up to return it.]

Hello!

[action]

[blackteriques]

[He takes a moment to look at what Katara's doing, frowning a bit in confusion.]

A strange time to be planting plants, isn't it?

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[banditsblindly.livejournal.com]

[When Katara gets home, Toph hops off her regular spot on the couch and crosses over to her, strangely serious. When she talks, her voice is low.]

Hey, Katara? There's something I need to show you.

action;

[markofthebrave]

[Instant concern.]

All right. What is it?

action;

[banditsblindly.livejournal.com]

In my room. Follow me.

[She turns to lead the way. It wasn't a big deal or anything, but she just...had to share with someone.]

[video]

[piggybabe.livejournal.com]

[Watching that display, Ino can't help but ask one thing:]

You're not trying to catch a cold now, are you?

[video]

[markofthebrave]

[This is probably picked up on the way back home and after Nami has been so kind as to warm the weather for her a bit. So Katara grins at Ino.]

I wasn't really trying to do anything.

[godbent]

[And then a Katara walked out of the Flower shop. Haruhi... figures they should talk again, though the context for their need to speak would obviously be unknown to Katara. But how to go about this... she could just walk up to her and ambush her that way or- well Haruhi herself in in a fluffy white coat sitting on a bench, lurking. So the next logical step would of course be- to couch to try to draw attention to her!

Yeah, that's covert! Casual, even!]

[markofthebrave]

[Haruhi, you're clearly overthinking this. Katara will see the other girl sitting on the bench and smile and nod.]

Hey, Haruhi.

[But she will keep walking. Her hands are full of tree and mulch after all.]