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[Sneeze and you break it filter to CR at around 4 am this morning.]

I'm back. I'm fine. I hope everyone's okay. Good night.

[So then Katara wakes up much, much later and will be just puttering around the house for a while for those who are inclined to catch her in serious conversation. She sends notes to Trafalgar and to Gelda to let them know that although she's back she feels like she needs to take a few days off... she's still very tired, and as of yet not feeling like being around people.

All that changes, however, on Wednesday. She needs to get out of the house, she needs to do something life-affirming and fun... and isn't it fortunate that she's been working on building several ~~insane~~ ~~monstrous~~ intense snow tracks for people to go sledding on? She decides to go check on them and to bring her journal with them.

Finding that their structural integrity hasn't been too damaged without constant maintenance and that the cold weather still holds... she decides that today is the day to show them off.]

Hey, everyone - I've been working on something the past few weeks and if you like sledding then... [She trails off and flips the journal over so that the journal feed will reveal three sledding tracks. She's made good use of all the snow in the past month or so, the clearing is very nearly bare of it - instead, there is the very large one, made completely of tunnels and requiring snow-cut stairs to ascend and once dared will necessitate a few on-the-walls themselves turns, there is the slightly less large one that seems to be composed mostly of sheer drops, and there is the normal-sized one that is essentially one long spiral down to ground level.] then grab your sleds. Don't worry, I've had a few people test them and they've held up just fine! It's south of the barracks, by the river.

[OOC: If anyone wants to come sledding, please do! Threadjacks of all sorts are welcome!

Also, if I could get those who attend the school, work in the clinics, or attend combat medicine lessons to give this a quick glance and offer input, that would be awesome! \o/!]

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I told him he could keep flirting! [And here's where some of Luceti's pain comes out.]

I know it's ridiculous that he's doing it even though he knows I don't like him, but is it so impossible to conceive that someone would want to focus all their attention on getting me to like them back?

[...because it kind of is. It doesn't make any sense.]

That's not what I mean! You should have someone like that. There's no reason you shouldn't. [Even if it's a bit relieving that she doesn't.] But that better not be why you're keeping Masaomi around, just because you don't. That's not fair to you or him.

I'm not "keeping Masaomi around!" [Moon and stars, what did that even mean, it sounded horrible.]

I'm just not cutting him out! He's my friend, Sokka, should I have to lose that just because he started to like me and wants me to like him back? What would you do, if before Suki showed up one of your friends had confessed to you? Someone you trust, someone who relies on you - could you just cut off the friendship?

You can be his friend without being the object of his affection! If he's going to stop being your friend just because you say no, then what's the point?

[Wait, what?]

Where are you getting that from? I told you, he wasn't pressuring me!

He's not going to stop being my friend, he's just... not going to let me... [She sighs a little. How does she explain this when she's not sure she understands it completely herself. It's just, when she'd asked him why he told her, how had he said it?]

...it's not like he told me he liked me just so I'd know. He wants things to change.

Well yeah, I picked up on the fact he wanted things to change. [So that Katara would be dating him.]

So what am I supposed to say to that? "No, stop feeling that way?"

[She's not sure she understands your issue, Sokka. She's trying so hard to do right - why are you looking at her like that?]

[He sighs. He's not even sure what his own point is. He just doesn't like the fact Katara is letting it play out.]

I don't know.

[That admission makes her feel a little better. She looks away from him - straight ahead - and draws her knees up to her chest, creating a tent with the blanket which she spoils as she wraps her arms around her knees.]

Me either.

[She sighs a little, looking at where her toes would be under the blanket.]

I'm just doing the best I can, Sokka. I don't want to hurt him, but I don't want to try to make myself feel something that I don't feel either.

[And I miss Chouji.]

[He finally leans back, his wolf tail cushioning the back of his head from hitting the wall. She had told him all this. So now what?

What would dad do?]

I just don't want him hurting you.

[What can she say to that? "He won't hurt me," is pretty much straight out, because Masaomi's already proved to her that... hurting her is a valid option to him if it will get him her attention. "I won't let him," is similarly out, because she did, once, even if she knows she won't let herself stand through anything like that again, it happened. And sometimes... you can hurt people without meaning to.

I don't want him hurting me either.]

He doesn't want to hurt me, either. He's my friend, Sokka - he's on my side.

[She looks up at him again.]

Just... think about what I asked, okay? Try to get to know him a little better.

[There's more than one way to get hurt. And waterbending doesn't help with the kind he's thinking about.

He lowers his head again, leveling his gaze with her.]

Yeah. I will. [He's going to find out just what's going on in that guy's head.]

[...and then Katara experiences a strange feeling of disconnect. As in she is thinking 'take the guy out fishing' and Sokka agrees only to use him as bait.

Hmm.

Surely she's overreacting, but.]

Go easy on him, okay, Sokka? He's [a good guy? no. yes? sigh.] my friend.

Yeah, yeah. Don't worry, I don't plan to pick a fight with him.

[Just. Talk.]

[Frown.]

I mean it. I didn't tell you this because it was a problem I wanted you to solve, remember? I just wanted you to know.

Okay, alright. I get it. [Whether he'll do that... that's another story.]

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