markofthebrave | [ Action, Written, Video ] .057

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[ Action, Written, Video ] .057

[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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You're the expert.

I guess you could say that, yeah.

[Heading up the steps now.]

[Okay, at the top here. Looks a lot cooler from this point of view, he'll admit.]

Okay, if you've never been sledding before you're going to want to take this lying down. [She steadies the sled for him.] Do you want to go head or feet first?

Feet, probably. [More control that way. 8|a]

All right. [She crouches beside it and holds on to the sled.] Lay down and make sure you keep most of your fingers inside the sled.

Hands and feet inside the ride at all times, huh.

[Roger, roger. He climbs in, but doesn't lie down just yet.] Anything else?

You can direct it a little with your feet, by shifting your weight, but other than that - it's easy. [A quick grin.] You won't have to do any work.

I like the sound of that.

So you following after, or what?

[She only brought up one sled, he knows. Probably safer to go one at a time. But with her bending, she has other ways to head down.]

Of course! That's the fun way of getting down. Go on, I'll wait until it's safe.

All right. [He nods, then uses his hands to push the sled back and forth on the edge, building momentum.] See you at the bottom!

[And with that, he finally shoves all of his weight forward, lying back as the sled goes down the tunnel.]

[And, after waiting the appropriate time, Katara forms a small water-sled and follows after.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!]

[Okay, okay... that was more fun than he was expecting. Katara may have even heard him laughing it up further ahead of her, with the way sound bounces off the walls in here.

It's kind of like how he expected the spiral course to be, only better. Kinda like a roller coaster, but one he can change the course of. It could be different every time too.

When he gets to the bottom, he grins and wipes some snow dust off of his pants, getting up to drag the sled out of the way before Katara gets to the bottom.]

[Heck yes, she heard that laugh. She lands easily, enjoying bending herself along the tunnel ceiling, and flips to land in a crouch on the ground.]

Have fun?

Yeah. [She wins this time.] It was better than I was expecting.

[She grins brightly.]

Do you want to go again? Or try one of the other ones?

Aa... [Will they even want to bother after they get done talking? He did come out here for a reason, even if he wants to hang out too.]

Sure, why not. Just another turn or two.

[Blink.]

Really?

Okay! [she beams at him.] Which would you like to do next?

[He stands up and nods his head over towards the spiral one.]

I'd like to try that one out. Wouldn't mind giving this one another go too.

All right! Let's go.

[So they might take more than a 'couple' turns on those. After thirty minutes, Shikamaru's tried all three courses at least one, and shocker of shockers to those who know him as a boring guy, enjoyed himself. Using chakra, he even figured out some cool tricks to do in the tunnel track.

Still not a huge fan of the cold, though, so he calls it good before too long.]

Haaa... that was cool.

[Katara is rosy-cheeked from the cold and the exercise, an she smiles at him, proud of the fact that he enjoyed himself on what she built.]

I'm glad you liked it.

[And she really, genuinely is.]

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[He flashes a grin. Similarly, he's glad that she's had a good time too. He knows how she doesn't usually take the aftermath of drafts as well as some. Same probably goes for the mission she got back from.

So that she could have fun like this is definitely a good thing.]

They gonna be around for a while?

I'll leave them up until they're not safe anymore. So I guess it just depends how long the cold lasts.

[It's more than just a little fun. This kind of thing... it's a positive affirmation that her bending is for more than just taking lives. It can build something too.]

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